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Amazonfail II: The conspiracy against Wodehouse

Apr 26, 2009 21:52

A few of you may recall from a couple of weeks ago a certain brouhaha, a bit of a to-do, about how Amazon.com suddenly failed to display various works related to lesbians and gays in search results. One of the big questions, of course, was whether it would be plausible as well as charitable to attribute this "glitch" to incompetence rather than ( Read more... )

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lxndr April 27 2009, 02:36:21 UTC

IS there dystopian post-apocalyptic African chick-lit?
I'd be interested to know this.

chillyrodent April 27 2009, 16:13:48 UTC

#1 Ladies' Brave New Armageddon. Houghton-Mifflin.

msagara April 27 2009, 02:37:00 UTC

LOL!!!

I am in the process of doing my taxes for 2008 -- and it isn't even the 30th yet -- so I was not expecting to find very much amusing this eve.

But this... was very, very funny. Thank you :)

merle_ April 27 2009, 11:59:14 UTC

I cannot think of any book outside of the realm of antiques that would be worth more than a dollar per page.

Interesting that none of those tags occurs in their list of most popular tags; I would have assumed that given zero information it would simply offer those. It would be more understandable if there were a "customers who bought this also bought these things", but at that price tag I doubt they have any such data.

theridger May 9 2009, 21:35:46 UTC

Amazon once sent me an email saying "As someone who has purchased or rated books by Anthony Trollope, you might like to know that "Container Ships and Oil Tankers (Amazing Ships)" is now available."

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