The Amazon Failure
Here are a few things I learned this weekend.
1, the cheapo version of bactrim fucks you up if you don't eat food with it. I so nauseous that I had to stay in bed and miss the Easter party that the uncle's gf was throwing. Btw, she's doing okay. She's been calling my mom nearly daily but work keeps her busy. She's a tow-truck driver and now the only one certified in her small town.
2, twitter is powerful and can make companies bow out in apology. Amazon screwed up and had an LJ type of failboat happen. All the LGBT deemed Adult books were dropped off the sales rnakings and the authors are PISSED.
I wonder if this was passed on to the yaoi/yuri (boylove/girllove) graphic novel side of things as well. They are considered adult...but they aren't aimed at an audience except adults as erotic reading.
So was this some new policy? An lj change of tos failboat type? Or just an honest glich?
Opinions?
Edit: I checked Amazon and the Brokeback Mountain book does not have it's Amazon Sales Rank listed and it is true that it does show for another of the author's book. But I don't think this was deliberate because the erotic graphic novels are NOT effected. Not even the gay ones.
Update: Maybe it is deliberate as on the petitionsite it has a letter stating Amazon's new policy.
My question is this, why aren't the smutty graphic novels not being blacklisted and only the novel books? Do they not deem it adult? Or is it because the ones being affected are categorized under the gay and lesbian linky and even the bl and gl mangas are listed under comics and graphic novels linky. So is this really a glitch or do the banishers not want to mess with TokyoPop et al or do they not know about the comic porn?
update: Here is the blog that started it all, Mark R. Probst e-mailed and got a response saying that all books that fall under the 'adult' category are being taken off the sales ranking... But it's only affected the gay and lesbian novels. Nothing else, so far.
update: dearauthor is getting the techno info on what exactly was affected. It seems that the block only effects certain metatags which may be why the graphic novels are unaffected.
It could be that it was a glich and someone did this to all those they deemed 'adult' or it could be a hackjob. Is it just a coincidence that this happened Easter weekend the holiest of holy days in the Christian religion?
1, the cheapo version of bactrim fucks you up if you don't eat food with it. I so nauseous that I had to stay in bed and miss the Easter party that the uncle's gf was throwing. Btw, she's doing okay. She's been calling my mom nearly daily but work keeps her busy. She's a tow-truck driver and now the only one certified in her small town.
2, twitter is powerful and can make companies bow out in apology. Amazon screwed up and had an LJ type of failboat happen. All the LGBT deemed Adult books were dropped off the sales rnakings and the authors are PISSED.
I wonder if this was passed on to the yaoi/yuri (boylove/girllove) graphic novel side of things as well. They are considered adult...but they aren't aimed at an audience except adults as erotic reading.
So was this some new policy? An lj change of tos failboat type? Or just an honest glich?
Opinions?
Edit: I checked Amazon and the Brokeback Mountain book does not have it's Amazon Sales Rank listed and it is true that it does show for another of the author's book. But I don't think this was deliberate because the erotic graphic novels are NOT effected. Not even the gay ones.
Update: Maybe it is deliberate as on the petitionsite it has a letter stating Amazon's new policy.
My question is this, why aren't the smutty graphic novels not being blacklisted and only the novel books? Do they not deem it adult? Or is it because the ones being affected are categorized under the gay and lesbian linky and even the bl and gl mangas are listed under comics and graphic novels linky. So is this really a glitch or do the banishers not want to mess with TokyoPop et al or do they not know about the comic porn?
update: Here is the blog that started it all, Mark R. Probst e-mailed and got a response saying that all books that fall under the 'adult' category are being taken off the sales ranking... But it's only affected the gay and lesbian novels. Nothing else, so far.
update: dearauthor is getting the techno info on what exactly was affected. It seems that the block only effects certain metatags which may be why the graphic novels are unaffected.
It could be that it was a glich and someone did this to all those they deemed 'adult' or it could be a hackjob. Is it just a coincidence that this happened Easter weekend the holiest of holy days in the Christian religion?