Amazon.com is "stripping the sales figures and accompanying rankings from GLBTQ books, erotica, and romance novels, particularly those with what they term "adult content." Quoted from this article over at the Smart Bitches Love Trashy Books site.
Authors are beginning to report that since having their sales ranking stripped, their books are no longer found in searches on Amazon.com.
What a buncha bullshit!
The smart bitches over at Smart Bitches have organized a Google Bomb:
Do your part ... follow the link and repost it as many times in as many places as you can. The link should read: Amazon Rank
Also, I just read that Powell's Books is considering organizing a GLBTQ book sale in response to Amazon.com's fascist asshattery.
Go Powell's!!!
Why is this important to me? Well, I love my freedom of choice and abhor censorship, of-course. But I also write erotica, which is one of the genres being de-ranked by Amazon.com. So yeah, this one's personal.
2 comments:
Is Amazon still doing this? For awhile I saw a lot of chatter on Twitter about Amazon doing this. I've got to find out.
Hi Ashley,
As far as I know, they said they were going to "fix" it.
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