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Amazon de-RANKS all books regarding homosexuality

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If you don't like it, shop somewhere else. I'm sure Amazon will miss the few hundred customers (out of millions) it's going to lose.
 
Originally posted by: Hacp
If you don't like it, shop somewhere else. I'm sure Amazon will miss the few hundred customers (out of millions) it's going to lose.
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so you think there's only a few hundred gay people out there? weird.

also, what about all those that would probably go for a boycott if this were a real issue (I don't think it is--seems like a glitch/misunderstanding right now).

All I'm saying is, if this were real, do you think it would piss off only a few hundred people?
 
Originally posted by: Hacp
If you don't like it, shop somewhere else. I'm sure Amazon will miss the few hundred customers (out of millions) it's going to lose.
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Well, let's just ban all books on the gay lifestyle completely since it's only going to affect a few hundred people. Fuck them right?
 
Amazon Says Gay Blacklist a 'Glitch'

After stripping sales rankings from a variety of gay-themed books, from romance novels to histories, Amazon.com now blames "a glitch" for the changes and promises a fix. Good luck selling that line.

Amazon issued a statement to Peter Kafka of All Things Digital and some other reporters, reading:

?We recently discovered a glitch to our Amazon sales rank feature that is in the process of being fixed. We?re working to correct the problem as quickly as possible.?

The online bookseller now needs to explain why a temporary glitch "recently" discovered has been affecting gay-themed novels going back to at least early February, when (as we noted previously) former gay stripper Craig Seymour saw the sales ranking on his memoir disappear even as Diablo Cody's stripper memoir retained its sales rank. Seymour complained at the time and eventually resolved the issue, so it's not like Amazon didn't have warnings of the problem before this weekend.

Amazon also needs to explain how said glitch appears to have systemically targeted "hundreds" of gay romance books and autobiographies over the past two days while leaving so many similar straight books alone.

The company will no doubt try to do that without reminding its homophobic customers that it is selling hot man-on-man and woman-on-woman and whoever-on-whoever purple prose for gays to read and do lord knows what else at the same time. Better start working on the statement right now if you hope to put it out anytime next week.
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http://gawker.com/5209381/amaz...gay-blacklist-a-glitch
 
Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
Originally posted by: Hacp
If you don't like it, shop somewhere else. I'm sure Amazon will miss the few hundred customers (out of millions) it's going to lose.
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Well, let's just ban all books on the gay lifestyle completely since it's only going to affect a few hundred people. Fuck them right?
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The books aren't banned. Regardless boo hoo.
 
Originally posted by: zinfamous
Originally posted by: Hacp
If you don't like it, shop somewhere else. I'm sure Amazon will miss the few hundred customers (out of millions) it's going to lose.
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so you think there's only a few hundred gay people out there? weird.

also, what about all those that would probably go for a boycott if this were a real issue (I don't think it is--seems like a glitch/misunderstanding right now).

All I'm saying is, if this were real, do you think it would piss off only a few hundred people?
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Only a few hundred would be crazy enough to boycott amazon because of this.
 
Originally posted by: amicold
Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
Originally posted by: Hacp
If you don't like it, shop somewhere else. I'm sure Amazon will miss the few hundred customers (out of millions) it's going to lose.
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Well, let's just ban all books on the gay lifestyle completely since it's only going to affect a few hundred people. Fuck them right?
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The books aren't banned. Regardless boo hoo.
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I was trying to make a point...which obviously sailed right over your head.
 
Originally posted by: Hacp
Originally posted by: zinfamous
Originally posted by: Hacp
If you don't like it, shop somewhere else. I'm sure Amazon will miss the few hundred customers (out of millions) it's going to lose.
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so you think there's only a few hundred gay people out there? weird.

also, what about all those that would probably go for a boycott if this were a real issue (I don't think it is--seems like a glitch/misunderstanding right now).

All I'm saying is, if this were real, do you think it would piss off only a few hundred people?
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Only a few hundred would be crazy enough to boycott amazon because of this.
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Not if it's real, no. Civil Liberties have a pretty strong, and quite recent history in this country.

Or have you already forgotten?

In this sense, I'm simply saying that an implied prejudice always carries repercussions with any public OR private company. Regardless of what side you're on, you don't honestly think that a perceived inequality will go unanswered in this country? particularly one affecting the current leading disenfranchised and highly politically motivated minority?
 
Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
Originally posted by: amicold
Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
Originally posted by: Hacp
If you don't like it, shop somewhere else. I'm sure Amazon will miss the few hundred customers (out of millions) it's going to lose.
Click to expand...

Well, let's just ban all books on the gay lifestyle completely since it's only going to affect a few hundred people. Fuck them right?
Click to expand...

The books aren't banned. Regardless boo hoo.
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I was trying to make a point...which obviously sailed right over your head.
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doesn't mean it was a good point.
 
Originally posted by: IAteYourMother
Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
Originally posted by: amicold
Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
Originally posted by: Hacp
If you don't like it, shop somewhere else. I'm sure Amazon will miss the few hundred customers (out of millions) it's going to lose.
Click to expand...

Well, let's just ban all books on the gay lifestyle completely since it's only going to affect a few hundred people. Fuck them right?
Click to expand...

The books aren't banned. Regardless boo hoo.
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I was trying to make a point...which obviously sailed right over your head.
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doesn't mean it was a good point.
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Please, enlighten us on your opinion on this topic. You've done nothing but criticize my post but said nothing at all about your own opinion on this subject...and you obviously have one.
 
Update the OP:
Amazon says it's a glitch and being fixed: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/...t/e195040D58.DTL&tsp=1

Considering that some of the books that show up on the ranked and de-ranked lists are the same copy but different editions, I'm inclined to believe them on the glitch explanation.

Our research shows that these books have lost their ranking: "Running with Scissors" by Augusten Burroughs, "Rubyfruit Jungle" by Rita Mae Brown, "Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic" by Alison Bechdel, "The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1" by Michel Foucault, "Bastard Out of Carolina" by Dorothy Allison (2005 Plume edition), "Little Birds: Erotica" by Anais Nin, "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" by Jean-Dominque Bauby (1997 Knopf edition), "Maurice" by E.M. Forster (2005 W.W. Norton edition) and "Becoming a Man" by Paul Monette, which won the 1992 National Book Award.

Books that remain ranked include: "Naked" by David Sedaris, "Tropic of Cancer" by Henry Miller, "American Psycho" by Bret Easton Ellis, "Wifey" by Judy Blume, "The Kiss" by Kathryn Harrison, the photobooks "Playboy: Helmut Newton" and "Playboy: Six Decades of Centerfolds," "Naked Lunch" by William Burroughs, "Incest: From 'A Journal of Love'" by Anais Nin, "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" by Jean-Dominque Bauby (2007 Vintage International edition), "Maurice" by E.M. Forster (2005 Penguin Classics edition).
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Lists from http://latimesblogs.latimes.co...rse-notices.html?tsp=1
 
they can do whatever they want, just as consumers can chose to shop wherever they want....personally even if they did do this on purpose it wouldn't stop me from shopping there.
 
Originally posted by: zinfamous

again, they aren't privately-owned, as has been repeated a few times in here.
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And again, you are wrong. They are privately-owned, publically-traded. Ownership and share trading are not the same thing.

With regard to the OP, it appears to be a glitch, and even if it wasn't, so what? Big flipping deal.
 
Originally posted by: PokerGuy
Originally posted by: zinfamous

again, they aren't privately-owned, as has been repeated a few times in here.
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And again, you are wrong. They are privately-owned, publically-traded. Ownership and share trading are not the same thing.

With regard to the OP, it appears to be a glitch, and even if it wasn't, so what? Big flipping deal.
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discrimination is a big deal?
 
So let me get this straight, yesterday they were still selling these book. Today they are still selling these books. And tomorrow they'll still be selling these books.


Common boys! Get those pitchforks and head for Seattle now!!
 
Originally posted by: lupi
So let me get this straight, yesterday they were still selling these book. Today they are still selling these books. And tomorrow they'll still be selling these books.


Common boys! Get those pitchforks and head for Seattle now!!
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using sales rank is a common way of choosing what to buy or look at when you're not shopping for something specific?
 
Originally posted by: PokerGuy
Originally posted by: zinfamous

again, they aren't privately-owned, as has been repeated a few times in here.
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And again, you are wrong. They are privately-owned, publically-traded. Ownership and share trading are not the same thing.

With regard to the OP, it appears to be a glitch, and even if it wasn't, so what? Big flipping deal.
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Private citizens/entities and other publicly traded concerns hold Amazon's stock/debt as they are a publicly held and traded company.

They are not a private company.


 
not that I agree but in general sex that is not pro-creation based is considered an adult topic. If you can show homosexuals can impregnate each other I am sure amazon would give a listen to that story.

 
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