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Amazon seems to be stripping the sales figures and accompanying rankings from GLBTQ books, erotica, and romance novels, particularly those with what they term “adult content.” As a result those books can no longer be found through the regular amazon search function and are thusly censored.
HERE on "Smart Bitches, Trashy Books" they say that not only involves romance books and erotica, but also gay themed fiction and non-fiction as well as classics like Lady Chatterley's lover.
And the clever people over there came up with the following:
amazon rank What is amazon thinking!!!??!!!