A little more about amazonfail

[nancylebov]

My previous two posts were a little sloppy-- I need to watch it if I get that caught up in a conflict again. Getting angry or giddy doesn't mean epistomology 101 no longer applies.

I think one of the things driving the technical problems was a sub-cultural mismatch. Some people think it's the right thing to use blunt language about sex and other people think it's equally obligatory to use euphemisms. The latter group still has a good bit of social dominance.

Comments

[avram]

I think a big part of the problem is that Amazon wants to be all things to all people. They want to sell sexually explicit books and videos and sex toys, but they also don't want to drive away the people who might be offended by seeing sexually explicit books and videos and sex toys. In other words, effectively they're ashamed to admit that they're selling some of the things they're selling. Right there, that's a difficult problem to deal with.