amazonfail
So I don't twitter, which is where this really took off, but I do follow enough writing blogs to have heard about it quite a bit. I'm not going to go into the whole story here, since other people (like Booksquare, Neil Gaiman, and Smart Bitches) have done that pretty thoroughly, but the up shot is that, over the weekend, a whole bunch of books, many of them having to do with gay/lesbian issues or feminism, disappeared from Amazon's search lists because they mistakenly got tagged for having "adult" content. Personally, I'm feeling less than happy with Amazon at the moment and would rather it not have such a prominent place in the book world. I'm not quite ready to boycott Amazon, but it's a near thing. Somewhat ironically, I was actually planning on making some Amazon purchases this weekend, and now I'm not sure what to do. Who do you go to to buy things like books and games if Amazon isn't an option?