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

[ithilwen.livejournal.com]

Sorry your book has been affected by this. Needless to say, I will be contacting Amazon to voice my extreme displeasure. What an idiotic move on their part! It's going to cause them nothing but grief.

[alex-beecroft.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much, Ithilwen :) Curiously enough, I'm much more angry about them de-ranking John J O'Neill's "The Church and the Homosexual" than I am about them de-ranking False Colors. O'Neill's book saved my faith when I was going through an 'am I damned because my fantasy life is all m/m' crisis. I can only imagine that it has saved the faith and the lives of many gay people. It's obscene to list it as 'adult' when it's a book that helps people to accept themselves and to love God and other people.

Amazon have now said it was all a mistake
http://blog.seattlepi.com/amazon/archives/166329.asp

which is hopeful in terms of getting things back how they were, but not exactly believable.