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Amazon: “an embarrassing and ham-fisted cataloging error”

Lisa L. Spangenberg | April 13, 2009

From the Seattle PI blog, quoting Amazon spokesperson Drew Herdener:
This is an embarrassing and ham-fisted cataloging error for a company that prides itself on offering complete selection.
It has been misreported that the issue was limited to Gay & Lesbian themed titles–in fact, it impacted 57,310 books in a number of broad categories such as [...]

Amazon Rankings Reek of Homophobia and Puritanism

Lisa L. Spangenberg | April 12, 2009

On Amazon.com beginning April 10, 2009, sales rankings of hundreds of books Amazon considers to be gay and lesbian began disappearing. These are not porn, most aren’t even romance or erotica. These are all books that Amazon subject metadata identifies as having gay and/or lesbian interest. Mark Probst, author and publisher, broke the news [...]