Good-bye Amazon.com

[shelleycat]

I've made my last purchase there, will bow out of the affiliates program and will stop dreaming of owning a kindle since I won't be able to find books from some of my friends on it.

http://www.queerty.com/amazon-says-sorry-for-delisting-gay-books-twitter-doesnt-care-20090413/

But where will I shop instead? Argh! Barnes and Noble? Please recommend

Comments

[jmpava]

See stuff like http://gawker.com/5210142/ (yoinked from ceph. I can't say one way or the other (yet) if that's true or not, but it seems at least that the jury is still out, and Amazon certainly doesn't (to my remembrance) have a HISTORY of anything like this, so I'm still inclined to go with the 'external malice' idea, at least for now. At the very least, it just seems way too, well, ODD, otherwise. It just doesn't make SENSE as a 'corporate policy' approach, IMO.

[jmpava]

Actually, this update (on the Stranger) seems even more likely/plausible IMO, especially as someone who currently works with oversees development language barrier issues: http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2009/04/13/re-amazon-and-the-gay-french-glitch-mike-daisey-responds.

I'll shut up now, so I don't end up bugging the snot out of you ;->

[shelleycat]

oh my, thanks for the info! Okay, I'll withhold judgment until we know more, but man, that got my activist juices flowing! LOL!

I do have to wonder though, if it was not the hacker, how did the *children's* book "Heather has Two Mommies" get cut out too, if it was indeed employee error with metadata.

But I can totally believe that Amazon's first response was just boilerplate for "porn" even though it was a legit publisher who complained. I've yet to find a company that takes any kind of complaints seriously or judiciously.