Finally - far too late in my opinion - Amazon has responded to the backlash of #amazonfail.

I haven't seen an official news release yet, but seattlepi.com quoted an Amazon spokesman on the issue. It looks like it was actually a translation error, not a hacker or other nefarious doings, that reclassified tons of books as "adult," thus removing ( Read more... )

So, I first got wind of this when my sister said that Amazon was stripping the sales ranks of GLBT books. I really don't like jumping on outrage bandwagons before getting all the facts, so I did a little digging and found some interesting things.

First, an author of a GLBT book noticed that the sales rankings had been stripped from his book. When ( Read more... )

You know that order I placed with Amazon.com? It shipped yesterday ( Read more... )

Would someone explain to me why I would ever use Amazon.ca over Amazon.com?

A prime example of why I usually do not order from Amazon.ca:

Steampunk by Ann Vandermeer is $12.37 CAN on Amazon.ca, and according to their website is available for pre-order (ie, it has not been released yet.) The same book sells for $10.17 US on Amazon.com, and will ( Read more... )