| Holy epic fail, Batman! |
[12 Apr 2009|08:40pm] |
Amazon.com is stripping the sales ranks from gay and lesbian books. That means, essentially, that gay and lesbian literature will not show up on Amazon searches or their bestseller lists. I am sort of incoherent with anger at this, so I'll let other people do my talking for me.
Such as copperbadge! He talks well. He also has several links to things you can do, such as sending Amazon a letter through the support page (which I have done), signing the petition, or participating in Smart Bitches Trashy Books' Googlebomb.
Amazon Rank
Mark Probst, an affected author, talks about things here.
And Dear Author sounds off here.
You know it's a big story when Sf_drama gets hold of it.
Meta_writer has an alert here and a list of affected books.
And a Real Newspaper weighs in, very articulately.
With Amazon's fail in mind, I think today's daily poet should be Sappho. Don't you?
( A fragment of Sappho )
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