[Infowarrior] - Amazon taking a position on GLBT books?

[Richard Forno]

(h/t TL)

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On Amazon.com two days ago, mysteriously, the sales rankings  
disappeared from two newly-released high profile gay romance books:  
“Transgressions” by Erastes and “False Colors” by Alex Beecroft.  
Everybody was perplexed. Was it a glitch of some sort? The very next  
day HUNDREDS of gay and lesbian books simultaneously lost their sales  
rankings, including my book “The Filly.” There was buzz, What’s going  
on?

< - amazon response - >

Yes, it is true. Amazon admits they are indeed stripping the sales  
ranking indicators for what they deem to be “adult” material. Of  
course they are being hypocritical because there is a multitude of  
“adult” literature out there that is still being ranked – Harold  
Robbins, Jackie Collins, come on! They are using categories THEY set  
up (gay and lesbian) to now target these books as somehow offensive.

Now in fairness I should point out that Amazon has also stopped  
ranking many books in the "erotica" categories as well which includes  
straight erotica. But that's a whole other battle that I'll leave to  
the erotica writers to take on.

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