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Here's what showed up at amazon recently if you searched on "homosexuality"



At this point, the elimination of books with homosexual content (some of them completely unexplicit) from the amazon search and sales rankings doesn't look to me any more like some half-assed effort to bend to pressure. It looks like serious, intentional policy, though I hope it isn't from the top.

I expect things to get even more interesting when whoever had the bright idea gets identified.

Link thanks to [livejournal.com profile] jonquil.

[livejournal.com profile] copperbadge has the most thorough discussion I've seen with definitions and where to protest and updates.

Addendum:Here's an interesting theory that it really is enemy action by people manipulating amazon tags for books. On the other hand, there are previous statements from amazon that they had a new policy for "adult" material.

Date: 2009-04-13 01:32 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] avram

According to a blogger for the LA Times, EM Forster's Maurice is either ranked or not, depending on which edition you look for. (The Penguin Classics edition is ranked, but the WW Norton is not. Both were 2005 editions.) What possible "serious, intentional policy" would account for that?

On the other hand, I just tried searching for "em forster maurice" under "Books" right now on Amazon, and the first hit was the WW Norton edition. No other editions were shown, but the next four things listed were:

  • Who's a Pretty Boy, Then?: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Gay Life in Pictures by James Gardiner
  • Queer Facts: The Greatest Gay and Lesbian Trivia Book Ever by Michelle Baker and Stephen Tropiano
  • National Healths: Gender, Sexuality and Health in a Cross-Cultural Context (UCL) by Worton & Wilson
  • Gay & Lesbian London (Time Out) by Paul Burston.

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