Hiding books of all things

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Something stupid this way comes: Amazon removing rankings from LGBT books thus removing them from Amazon searches because they’re ‘adult’. Though you can still search for Playboy centrefolds for some reason.

Further details/links via nekonexus’ post on the topic.

And honestly, all of the evident stupidity above on the part of Amazon aside, from a business perspective isn’t this just counterproductive to their function?


Update:

’Gay writing’ falls foul of Amazon sales ranking system Guardian.co.uk

Amazon Rank definition by Smart Bitches.

And the conclusion of this mess.