Comments | crimson_sonata: Amazon has been pulling the sales ranking for so-called "adult" books...

crimson_sonata

Amazon has been pulling the sales ranking for so-called "adult" books...

Apr 12, 2009 22:52

Pulling a sales-ranking means that books will no longer pop-up under the search feature or pop-up very low. Many of these books aren't even adult books and an extremely high percentage of them are books with characters who are homosexual but don't have any sexual encounters in them. Get this, books of Playboy photos have kept their sales ( Read more... )

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chris03 April 13 2009, 03:45:40 UTC

that's ridic!

crimson_sonata April 16 2009, 01:02:59 UTC

It looks like they reinstated everything properly!

opalleon April 13 2009, 07:34:24 UTC

. . . I CAN'T FUCKING BELIEVE THAT!! OH, HELL, NO! Wow! I mean . . I'm at a complete loss!

crimson_sonata April 16 2009, 01:03:37 UTC

I think they reinstated all the sales rankings!

opalleon April 16 2009, 04:47:17 UTC

I heard! I hear it was done by some irate hacker over not being able to score a chick to shoot heroin with on Craigslist.

I didn't know how to respond that initially. I feel the need to be angry, but at the same time, he was making a bold and very valid statement. I'm still not sure.

What do you think?

crimson_sonata April 21 2009, 01:09:13 UTC

I heard that it was one of their employees who just switched a few things by mistake. Hm...