WTF? Amazon makes sure that being socially inclusive in your writing hurts an author's sales.

[jinxed_wood]

Via 1_mad_squirrel

http://community.livejournal.com/meta_writer/11369.html

Amazon has ripped the rankings from all the their books that has 'gay adult content' because, and I quote: In consideration of our entire customer base, we exclude "adult" material from appearing in some searches and best

Comments

[persiflage_1]

Lame!!

[jinxed_wood]

It's ridiculous, isn't it? And in some countries, I believe it's even illegal - it's rigging the rankings, after all.

[persiflage_1]

Oh really? I hadn't thought of that, but that's a very good point about it potentially being illegal...

[eldritchhobbit]

That sound is me, banging my head on the table.

[jinxed_wood]

At first I though it was a very tasteless joke, or a glitch, but no - Amazon really did just do this. In what world is this acceptable behaviour?

[eldritchhobbit]

My mind boggles. I just... I got nothin'. *shakes head*

[dejla]

Well, that's just utterly stupid.

[jinxed_wood]

And they're also hitting the non-fiction and academic books - one of the most ironic ones was: 50 ways to support Lesbian and Gay Equality.

No words

[jinxed_wood]

I really can't understand why they thought this was in any way acceptable behaviour.

[mulder200]

WTH?! That's just retarded.

[jinxed_wood]

And it's worse than I originally thought - they're also hitting academic books!