AmazonFail

[netmouse]

"Fail" seems to be the new internet version of "gate" as Brian just commented to me.

Anyway, I got home tonight from a lovely 3-day weekend trip to NY with my sister, sat down to work on taxes and promptly got distracted reading AmazonFail, all about something Amazon has done (maybe policy, maybe glitch, probably both?) that has made it very hard to find many many books. (And if you have any doubt how horrid this is, go to amazon.com and do a search for "Homosexuality"). There's a book for helping teens accept their homosexuality and not commit suicide that no longer shows up. Instead? offensive dreck IMNHO.

For more details and good commentary, see here (links to other sources at the bottom of her post), here, and here.

I have canceled the one open order I had with amazon and posted to the amazon associates discussion board, and signed the petition.

Comments

[madkingludwig.livejournal.com]

It would seem to make more sense than the alternative theory that someone at Amazon sat down and thought to themselves, "Our clientèle is younger, obviously internet savvy, pretty liberal, activist and openminded as a group, and obviously literate. What would be the best way to totally piss off our base and cater to a group that is never going to by anywhere near as into us, preferring to get their info and literature from more anti-reputable right-wing sources? I should get a few guys from the PR and IT departments and brainstorm..."