AmazonFail, roundup.

[alex_beecroft]

Sales Ranks disappearing on Amazon?  What is going on?

Copied from storm_grant 's LJ

On the issue of Amazon suddenly stripping sales ranks from m/m, f/f and erotica, actual facts have been obtained.

Amazon is protecting is general readership from the evol gay and the pr0n. Read here: http://markprobst.livejournal.com/15293.html

http://vashtan.livejournal.com/490173.html

asknosecrets is collecting links here: http://community.livejournal.com/meta_writer/11560.html

storm_grant  got #amazonfail going on twitter. Go tweet and protest! Think of it as signing an e-petition, only with 140 characters to express your outrage!

vashtan  is compiling a list of books that have been affected, here: http://community.livejournal.com/meta_writer/11992.html


What can you do?

Copied from erastes LJ

1. Sign the petition

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/in-protest-at-amazons-new-adult-policy

2. Write to the CEO

Jeffrey Bezos. 
1200 12th Avenue South, 
Seattle, 
Washington 98144-2734, 
United States
Phone: 206-266-1000
Fax: 206-622-2405

3. Contact info for Amazon for calls, emails, faxes letters

http://clicheideas.com/amazon.htm

Also, if you have a book or books affected by the censorship, add their names to the list on meta_writer above.
Inform your publisher.
Write to any gblt paper you may be associated with.
Change your buy links for your books so they no longer link to Amazon.
If you were thinking of buying a Kindle, don't!

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On an unrelated issue but a perfect example of bad timing,

I am not going to be here from this evening until late Monday night, as I've got a reenactment event booked which I can't get out of, but I'll try and catch up with my emails and comments when I get home.

Comments

[spiralsheep.livejournal.com]

::hates on amazon::

But, on the plus side, the widely-read gawker.com is advertising your book:

http://gawker.com/5209381/why-amazon-cant-just-call-gay-blacklist-a-glitch

Demi-yay?

[alex-beecroft.livejournal.com]

Amazon clearly have all the integrity of a wet paper bag. Not only have they pissed off all their liberal supporters by doing this, but they've now pissed off all their fundie supporters by recanting on it.

On the positive side... from a sheer personal POV, yay for the prominent display of False Colors! Thank you!

From what I understand, Amazon are now starting to restore sales ranks. So if they manage to do that for everything now stripped, then I will be more than happy. (Gay-positive theology was stripped as 'adult' for God's sake, while books about the evil gay agenda were not. Glitch, my arse!) But really, after articles about this in the NY times, and on Channel 4 news, Amazon could not have done more to *publicize* gay literature if they'd tried!

Avon-type cynical yay! on the whole, I think :)