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posted by [identity profile] asatomuraki.livejournal.com at 05:11pm on 13/04/2009
Aw, thank you, dear. *huggle* I suspect my tummy troubles (which have returned today) may be a result of taking a medicine without dinner when it said in the instructions to take it with dinner (though the insert said "May be taken with or without food"). Otherwise, I've just had a relapse. *scowl*

Oh, and I'm sure the anthology got it's raking yanked. I didn't even look. From what I've heard of it (still no contributor copy!) I would not have been against somehow setting it apart with other explicit or adult materials, but it seems this Amazon thing has been rather broader than that. I mean, giving people fair warning of explicit material is one thing, but de-ranking children's books and biographies... *sigh* I hope it was a mistake, and I hope they fix it. I'm not really troubled by the idea of excluding explicit materials from searches -- maybe if people could opt to exclude erotica by choice? -- but sales rankings mean quite a lot to new writers and small presses, especially.

In any case, I'm over it. ;) Someone showed me this site:

http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/WEBSITE/WWW/WEBPAGES/homepage.php

which has worldwide free shipping on most stuff, and competitive prices (especially when you realize the shipping is already added in).
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posted by [identity profile] narniadear.livejournal.com at 05:26pm on 13/04/2009
I noticed that site on your other post. Very cool.

Yeah, I've always adored Amazon and I HOPE it was a mistake that they're fixing. I agree with what you said about maybe having the option to keep explicit materials out of your searches...but honestly? I haven't EVER run onto what I would term 'explicit' in my searches. Yanking random book ranks because they have gay/lesbian references isn't going to do anything but make them harder to find for people who actually want to find them. Not to mention the children's books and parenting books that got yanked. *rolls eyes again*
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posted by [identity profile] asatomuraki.livejournal.com at 05:40pm on 13/04/2009
I'm certain that the scope was unintentional, but I'm not sure whether there was an attempt at censorship. There was a fellow who wrote a memoir of his life as a stripper that was de-ranked for the same reason back in February, but three weeks later his rankings were reinstated... so it seems as though something was maybe afoot that we'll never know of (which annoys me to no end--be upfront about what you're doing and I may not like it, but be shady and deceptive about it and I reach a whole 'nother magnitude of irked). Still, I hope it gets sorted.
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posted by [identity profile] narniadear.livejournal.com at 07:15pm on 13/04/2009
Agreed. Even if they were astonishingly hacked, they need to say what in the heck is going on. 'Glitch' doesn't cover it when it's such a specific 'glitch.'
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