#AmazonFAIL FAIL FAIL

[mac_stone]

I'm still boggling. You can read about the fucked-uppedness that is Amazon.com unranking and disappearing GLBT romance and YA books, on markprobst 's LJ, here, and ongoing links are being updated at the meta_writer  community, here.

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[ckastens.livejournal.com]

That is just so out of the blue! What a shame.

[ckastens.livejournal.com]

This is just so damn ridiculous. It's the same problem over and over. You let a company grow too big and they think they own the world.
AIG gets too much financial power and a few jackasses manage to bankrupt the U.S. Amazon gets too much control over book distribution and they think they can impose their own ideology. There are dozens of other examples.
How many times is this going to repeat?

[mac-stone.livejournal.com]

I understand the people saying "Calm down, everyone, it's probably an honest mistake" -- but I don't think for a moment that it's an honest mistake. I don't see how an algorithm designed to de-rank "adult content" leaves Playboy centerfold collections ranked and searchable, but de-ranks Heather Has Two Mommies. That's a wee bit beyond incompetent.

There's an interesting article here, as well: http://dearauthor.com/wordpress/2009/04/12/amazon-rank/

[ckastens.livejournal.com]

There is no way this is an honest mistake.