04-12-2009, 07:38 PM | #1 | |
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Amazon Removed Gay Books from Rankings
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UPDATE: LA Times has a piece on this now: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2009/04/ Last edited by Moejoe; 04-12-2009 at 08:07 PM. |
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04-12-2009, 07:42 PM | #2 |
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I saw this on DearAuthor. Unfortunately, it's not just LGBT books, but some romance novels (mostly erotica).
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04-12-2009, 07:52 PM | #4 |
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There was a sort of campaign last year on the Amazon Kindle boards asking to remove a lot of the adult or porn type titles from showing up in the low-to-high sort for Kindle books. There were so many of them that it was difficult to sort through to find the lower priced Kindle books.
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04-12-2009, 07:57 PM | #5 |
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Apparantly de Sade has been hit by this and Brokeback Mountain.
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Just another reason for me not to patronize Amazon.
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I'm happy to add a "Dear Jeff Bezos" letter to the blog for anyone who would like to write one.
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It's spreading like crazy on twitter, and I haven't seen a tweet sympathetic to Amazon. Dear Jeff Bezos and lawyers: "Pride" comes before the fall. Mwahahahaha! (Evil laughter and pun intended.) I think Jeff Bezos might be a closeted...oh never mind!
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Last straw for me, too. I need to find somewhere else online to get my pbooks from now...
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Meh.
It's a business. Businesses make marketing decisions trying to determine what will work best with their targeted customer base. Sometimes they get it right. Sometimes they get it wrong. Very often the best thing to do is to split different product lines off into separate divisions. |
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