Amazon.com Censors Erotic & Sexual Book Searches
» Amorous Capitalism
Since Jeff Bezos / Amazon.com doesn’t need to bow to pressure from fundamentalists I can’t imagine why they are manipulating and suppressing their listings of books with erotic and sexual content.
When book critic Bethanne Patrick came across the news, she posted in on Twitter, where it circulated rapidly. Sunday afternoon it took just an hour for the hashtag #amazonfail to become the top trending topic on the site. An online petition was created. A site run by romance writers started an effort to redefine the phrase “Amazon rank” as “To censor and exclude on the basis of adult content in literature (except for Playboy, Penthouse, dogfighting and graphic novels depicting incest orgies).”
Amazon de-ranks so-called adult books, including National Book Award winner
Susie Bright wrote:
As you know, this game plan is undermines publishers, authors, readers, and the entire legal basis for American publishing and distribution.
I can hardly imagine what misguided Bowdler-Petit-Functionnaire came up with this maneuver.
Dear Jeff Bezos: Let’s be Adults, Shall We?
Hopefully Bezos or the people who are in charge of the daily functioning of Amazon.com will realize that whoever imposed this search penalty on books with sexual themes has made a severely bad and boneheaded mistake and remove the adult content filter.