OMG WTF Amazon?!?
Apr. 12th, 2009 01:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
grey_bardIt looks as though Amazon is pulling sales rankings from books with gay and lesbian content. And it appears, not even necessarily sexual content, and regardless of literary or historical merit. Confirmed targets include Brokeback Mountain, The Well of Loneliness and work by James Baldwin.
Maybe this isn't as pervasive and offensive as it looks, maybe it isn't what it looks like, but... If it *is* what it looks like, I am most decidedly peeved.
More information is available here. Be sure to read the comments, some of the most important information comes out there.
ETA: Yes, I completely acknowledge that they are a private company with a right to run their company any way they like. That's the way it should be. And I am a free citizen with a right to spend - or not spend - my money wherever I please. Hopefully, it won't come to that.
P.S. Amazon Rank. No I am not above Google Bombing.
Maybe this isn't as pervasive and offensive as it looks, maybe it isn't what it looks like, but... If it *is* what it looks like, I am most decidedly peeved.
More information is available here. Be sure to read the comments, some of the most important information comes out there.
ETA: Yes, I completely acknowledge that they are a private company with a right to run their company any way they like. That's the way it should be. And I am a free citizen with a right to spend - or not spend - my money wherever I please. Hopefully, it won't come to that.
P.S. Amazon Rank. No I am not above Google Bombing.
