Unlikely to be true -- sounds like a hoax-credit after the fact to me (particularly the part about hiring third-worlders and getting cookies that way-- could be done, but why bother?). And it does not change the basic premise people are objecting to, which is that Amazon suddenly started filtering "adult" books to keep them from showing in top sales lists, with the knock-on effect that they can't be found by searching from the main page, won't show up in "customers who bought what you bought also bought..." etc. Any filtering like that should be an option. (This also doesn't explain how anthropology and health books got delisted.)
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