Positive results of Amazonfail

1. Huge amounts of inadvertent publicity for False Colors, Transgressions, and The Filly, in particular, and the existence of gay romance as a genre in general.  Ironically enough, in trying to keep it invisible, they've managed to publicise it all over the world.

2. We've become aware that censorship on Amazon is an ongoing problem:

Additional Reasons to Not Forget #amazonfail

and hopefully we've become aware that while one huge company retains control over the visibility of books in general, there is always going to be a threat that the thought police could disappear entire segments of writing, thoughts and information, just by de-ranking them and taking them off the search facility.

What can we do?

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