Doing my part for the Amazon google bomb...

[scribblinlenore]

Amazon Rank

FYI, for people who haven't seen this all over everywhere by now, Amazon has delisted the sales rankings for books it deems "adult"--targeting GLBT books of every stripe, including YA novels, children's books, self-help books, literary fiction, as well as romance and erotica. This removes these books from lists of bestsellers and also from certain searches. It, in effect, hides them.

There's more information on meta_writer.

Personally, I won't be buying anything from Amazon until this ridiculous policy is rescinded.

ETA: GOOGLE BOMB SUCCESS!
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=Amazon+Rank&fp=_rpp-4zAm3I

ETA2: I now see the point of Twitter.

Comments

[scribblinlenore.livejournal.com]

And they don't even seem to offer a checkbox so that you can opt in to get "adult" search results, anywhere I can see.

Yes! I was thinking about that, too. Amazon is all about the personalization. So why not let people define their own levels of comfort? It leads me to feel that homophobia had a hand in the decision-making.