: Sunday, April 12, 2009
- CRAIG'S POP LIFE: Is Amazon.com Homophobic? - In the last couple of days, people have been blogging about how Amazon has been labeling gay and lesbian books as "adult" and removing the books from their search engine. I'm glad the issue is FINALLY getting attention (see links below), because I have been complaining about it since February. -
- Cheryl's Mewsings » Blog Archive » #Amazonfail Update - (comment) The fail here, unfortunately, is the angry mob insisting that heads roll and customers boycott Amazon all based on some scattered pieces of information that are not at all clear. Is it company policy, or a failed computer program? Why get out the torches & pitchforks before you've even heard directly from the company? -
- Ask Nicola: google-bomb, amazonfail, and a little crucifixionThis means amazon.com are literally taking away my livelihood because my books have lesbian characters. This means I might starve.
Amazon.com are starving me because I'm a lesbian and write about people like me. ![[info]](https://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif)
hermitsoul: # amazonfail - I am furious right now. Not on Amazon, not on at all. Amazon has decided to rank all GLBT books as adult, therefore removing their Amazon rank and making them harder to find. -- c_smith_author: IMPORTANT - just before this, Erastes' Transgressions and Alex's False Colours were topping out the rankings. Also note that "The Filly" is a YA Books, and therefore I would suggest one of the more important books to have out there for kids questioning their identity, and Transgressions and False Colours are being shelved with the Romance section of Barnes and Noble. -
- copperbadge: As a person with a brain, the fact that - As a person with a brain, the fact that Amazon.com is stripping sales rankings (and thus killing publicity) from gay and lesbian literature is offensive. As a writer, it is insulting. As a writer who is in the process of publishing a book about gay men, it's annoying on a business level. -
- joyful_molly: Meta: Amazon's on an anti-GLBT crusade again. And they're also after text books.It must be very difficult to run an enterprise the size of Amazon of you have your head and your Kindle stuck up your arse that far:
AMAZON has yanked the sales ratings (and limited the searchability of a great number of GLBT books - no matter if they have erotic content or not. - denise: The state of the Dreamwidth - This is the current roundup of the state-of-the-Dreamwidth! -
- elz: Stuff that got done, stuff that needs doing - I've been thinking of posting more about what I'm working on in terms of the archive (am getting quite fond of the AO3 nickname!) for anyone who's vaguely interested. This is really just my stuff/pov, since I don't want to try to speak for anyone else or pretend to be the otw newsletter! -
- cjk1701: Language rant - Dear authors, please have more care with us, bilingual people.//Code-switching has a set of very complex rules and follows some very interesting conventions, but is *still* doesn't mean that a native Italian, for example, is going to scream in Italian during his orgasm if he normally lives in France and speaks French. -
- pellucid: to remix or not to remix - I feel like a remix would be unequivocally awesome if only one could impose lots of restrictions and control, but obviously that's not exactly in the spirit of the activity. -
- yonmei: Dreamwidth total cynic - Ironically: I simultaneously do not believe that DW will take off any more (though certainly not any less) than IJ or GJ did, and feel kind of irritated/lonely by the number of people declaring they're soon not going to let people make comments anywhere but DW. -
- dirty_diana: you can hear the insecurity in my voice, right? [i don't take my chain off on the mic] - The list looks like this: Lee Adama/Dee Dualla. Colby Granger/David Sinclair. Danny Rand/Luke Cage. Tony Stark/Jim Rhodes. Teal'c/anyfuckingbody. John Sheppard/Aiden Ford. Eliot Spencer/Alec Hardison. Brian O'Conner/Rome Pearce. Robinson Crusoe/Friday. I say: how comes no fic? -