Boycott Amazon

[ayearalone]

So hopefully most of you have heard about amazon removing the rankings of GLBTQQAIP books because of their "Adult content." Removing the rankings makes these books less likely to show up on search engines and bars them from being listed in the best selling category even if they are in fact best sellers. This not only keeps our community from

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[sebastiality]

Yes. It's so strange. :-S

And WTF? £9.99 = $15.78? How had I not noticed the weakening of the £? Meep.

[ayearalone]

Here's another link that says essentially that they did it on purpose and are just blaming it on other sources:

http://www.feministing.com/archives/014797.html

And here an amazon spokesperson claims responsibility for the error, but doesn't apologize to the GLBT community:

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2009/04/amazon-begins-to-rerank-affected-books-theories-swirl.html

The truth has definitely become murky at this point to say the least.