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Amazon.com’s new “adult” reading policy
Have you heard about Amazon.com’s new policy regarding certain adult reading material? Apparently, Amazon.com doesn’t have any problem selling certain books, but they have dropped the reader rankings on certain material, even some fairly famous works of literature. This has some people up in arms. Maybe Amazon just got hacked?
A spokesperson for Amazon stated the policy as such:
“In consideration of our entire customer base, we exclude “adult” material from appearing in some searches and best seller lists. Since these lists are generated using sales ranks, adult materials must also be excluded from that feature.
Hence, if you have further questions, kindly write back to us.” But wait, now Amazon denies that they censored those rankings.
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Vick Mickunas
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By vick
April 13, 2009 7:27 PM | Link to this
Yes, LMJ-and I think that Amazon will have to perform quite a trick to pedal backwards away from this gaffe…By lmj
April 13, 2009 6:22 PM | Link to this
I assume by now, Vick, you have seen reports that Amazon has reported a “glitch” which resulted in adult content books not showing sales figures. The quotation marks were in every report I read. I interpret that to mean the news writer didn’t believe there really was a glitch. Something is rotten in Denmark.