: Tuesday, April 14, 2009
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duskpeterson: Daily life: Slashers rule OK - Lesson: Do not tangle with slashers. We rule the literary blogosphere. -- Richard Eoin Nash - The Blog: Amazonfail: A straight white male publisher on glitches and ham-fisted errors - The onus is on us, as Tim Wise has taught so well on the topic of white privilege. We cannot be given the benefit of the doubt, because it is always us who get the benefit of the doubt in our society, and if we are to take the pink and lavender dollars, and if we are to say, you don't need A Different Light, or Oscar Wilde Bookstore, we'll hook you up just fine, then we can never let this happen. -
- Adventures in Ethics and Science: Some thoughts on #Amazonfail. - Amazon does not own its customers. Consumers are entitled to view Amazon's deranking of books as appalling. They are entitled to share information about Amazon's behavior with other customers, entitled to voice their anger to Amazon, and entitled to organize efforts to shift business from Amazon to vendors with less appalling behavior. -
- The lessons of Amazonfail | Humans At Work - Don't stonewall, don't patronize, and don't assume you have automatic credibility. Amazon is perceived right now as everything from deeply clueless to desperately stonewalling to deliberately deceptive. And of all the errors you can make as a manager, this is the worst - to communicate in a way that distances people even further. -
- lim: Sukat, his eyes uncovered! - So when I'm vidding I'm after realising our symbolic language, the one we (sometimes unconsciously) hold in common, that's made up from canon, from fanfic, from our cultural commons. That's why it's a visual story and not a fanfic or an essay. And it's not just visual, it's musical too; to me, expressively, instinctively, vidding is most like dancing. -
- Amazon Using Category MetaData to Filter Rankings | Dear Author: Romance Novel Reviews, Industry News, and Commentary - I looked up the category meta data provided by the publisher to Amazon. I looked up over 40 books that had been deranked and filtered out of search engines. It appears that all the content that was filtered out had either "gay", "lesbian", "transgender", "erotic" or "sex" metadata categories. -
- damned_colonial: Round-up of potential causes of amazonfail - I'm collecting some links regarding potential causes for the event known as "amazonfail"; as a research tool for myself, re: how not to do it, traps to avoid, etc. -
- Femininsting: Amazon Rep: This was not a "glitch"; - Last night, after finding out about the Amazon craziness, I immediately called my editor, Brooke Warner, over at Seal Press. (Especially because Full Frontal Feminism and Yes Means Yes were two of the books affected.)//She spoke to their Amazon rep today, and he told her it was definitely not a glitch. -