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Originally Posted by Over
It seems this "problem" only applies to the USA site, as in the UK and FR sites everything is "normal".
Amazon wants to make money, so I don't believe they would do something to lower their sales unless they had a good reason. So far, de-raking a book seems to be a matter of being able to search for it in the homepage, right?
So what?
Oh... That makes difficult for someone who is just casually browsing books to stumble in a G&L erotica book...
So what?
That is not censorship. Anyone willing to get the book he wants, can do so. FOr me, protesting this is the same as protesting agains't stores who don't stack playboy magazines next to the comic books and newspapers. Come on!
Now, if this is a sneaky step to something really worse, like real censorship, then I can understand all this revolt. But as it is, I see nothing wrong about shifting these books from the window to the shelves inside.
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The problem is that when they're de-ranked you won't have them on best-seller lists and other lists because they're now classed as 'adult', which is preposterous in the first instance because you have to be an 'adult' to own an Amazon account.
The books that were targeted were predominantly those that feature LGB&T tags in their descriptions. Whilst these, and it includes many classics such as E.M Foresters Maurice, have lost visibility, you can still get a butt plug or dildo recommendation in your list, or even Playboy and Girls Gone Wild. You don't see it as censorship when LGB&T books are excluded from the lists, but Girls Gone Wild is happily included?