Amazon sales rankings (II).
Apr. 13th, 2009 08:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kiki_engIn response to the many queries Amazon has received Amazon has now responded, saying that the removal of sales rankings is a glitch. There's still not a lot of information available from Amazon at this time. I couldn't find any information on their website about the sales rankings removal. I think it's definitely a case of them issuing a quick statement to buy themselves some time to figure out what to do about this issue.
According to Publishers Weekly an Amazon spokesperson has stated that their is no new "adult" policy. Conversely, according to author Craig Seymour in blog posts here and here this (books without sales ranks) has been going on since at least February and in response to inquiries he made the phrase "adult product" eventually got used. The sales rank of his book was apparently restored after he'd notified his editor.
Unsurprisingly Amazon's claim of a glitch has been met with some scepticism. Locus has picked this story up, as has The Associated Press and Washington Post.
Lilith Saintcrow's post seems to be fairly well-representative of the general response at present.
There's a lot of focus on this as an LGBTQ issue, and it looks like a lot of people are reading it as that. There are other books that do not have a sales rank right now, that are decidedly not erotica. (Blogger draws attention to disability books.)
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tehdely has an interesting theory about the shit storm here:On Amazon Failure, Meta-Trolls, and Bantown. (Translation of this is something like: possibly not so much Amazon's fault, but still Amazon's fault, with the tagging of things as "adult")
In conclusion: the internet is an angry confused bear of rage that Amazon does not know how to handle. (There is a macro.)
According to Publishers Weekly an Amazon spokesperson has stated that their is no new "adult" policy. Conversely, according to author Craig Seymour in blog posts here and here this (books without sales ranks) has been going on since at least February and in response to inquiries he made the phrase "adult product" eventually got used. The sales rank of his book was apparently restored after he'd notified his editor.
Unsurprisingly Amazon's claim of a glitch has been met with some scepticism. Locus has picked this story up, as has The Associated Press and Washington Post.
Lilith Saintcrow's post seems to be fairly well-representative of the general response at present.
There's a lot of focus on this as an LGBTQ issue, and it looks like a lot of people are reading it as that. There are other books that do not have a sales rank right now, that are decidedly not erotica. (Blogger draws attention to disability books.)
tehdely has an interesting theory about the shit storm here:On Amazon Failure, Meta-Trolls, and Bantown. (Translation of this is something like: possibly not so much Amazon's fault, but still Amazon's fault, with the tagging of things as "adult") In conclusion: the internet is an angry confused bear of rage that Amazon does not know how to handle. (There is a macro.)
