oulangi (![[info]](https://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} oulangi) wrote in ![[info]](https://www.insanejournal.com/img/community.gif){kind=small} metafandom,@ 2009-04-13 15:31:00 |
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Monday, April 13th 2009
- Lisy Babe’s Blog: #amazonfail - But what hardly anyone is talking about (yet) is that books to do with disability and sexuality have had their rank stripped too. -
- Amazonfail: A Call to Boycott Amazon : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits - if the glitch was only just “recently” discovered, the big question here is why Amazon told Mark Probst two days ago that the company was now in the practice of excluding “adult” material in some searches. For that matter, why did Amazon offer the same answer to author Craig Seymour? -
- jonquil: Remember Alice? It’s a song about Alice. - A memelet is going around that yesterday’s Amazon unpleasantness wasn’t intrinsic to the problem, but was a clever trolling operation, organized to take place on Easter Weekend, when the helpless technolords at Amazon would be away from their computers.//This turns out not to be true. -
- heather corinna: pure as the driven slush » Blog Archive » - It IS likely to be considered adult and stripped of its ranking if it’s queer (or written by a GLBT author), not hetero/gendernormative, feminist or about any aspect of sexuality for young people (though oddly, some YA sexuality guides were spared, and of the ones I am familiar with, they aren’t outrightly queer-inclusive or sex-positive, either of which may be why). -
- oulangi: Amazonfail, and getting out the virtual pitchforks. - not new policy, but new enforcement. VERY Slippery, Ashlyn. Plus if I’m right, you’re treating customers in bad faith. So it’s selective new enforcement of old policy - or does Amazon.fail actually expect people to believe that a random series of events caused the deranking of queer friendly books? -
- stewardess: Amazon’s Sales Rank And Keyword Censorship. - Most of this mess is still unknown. Which group complained, and what did they complain about? What precisely did Amazon think they were going to hide/censor with sales rank stripping? Are keywords the criteria they used; if so, which? How many books have been affected? Why did Amazon go about it in such an incredibly half-assed way? How much time will they waste on defensiveness? What pathetic excuses will they offer? -
- markprobst: Amazon Follies - On Amazon.com two days ago, mysteriously, the sales rankings disappeared from two newly-released high profile gay romance books: “Transgressions” by Erastes and “False Colors” by Alex Beecroft. Everybody was perplexed. Was it a glitch of some sort? The very next day HUNDREDS of gay and lesbian books simultaneously lost their sales rankings -