homophobia & Amazon.com

[rm]

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Amazon removes rankings from books with homosexual characters, including from at least one YA book, because they don't wish to include "adult" content in their rankings out of respect to the range of their membership.

Queer content does not inherently equal sexual or "adult" content.

We've got a big problem on our hands with this one.

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[rm.livejournal.com]

I've looked up some books I know and love: unaffected. I wonder if there were complaints against specific books, if only stuff with smaller presses is being targetted or what. Even if it's one rogue staff member, there's a serious issue. They're getting a nastygram from me later today.

[gairid.livejournal.com]

I've looked up some books I know and love: unaffected Well, that's interesting. Doesn't get them off the hook, though. An avalanche of complaints might goose them a bit.

I'll be emailing them as well. I buy a lot through Amazon and this really pisses me off.