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[gracie_musica]

I'm sure you've all heard about Amazon by now. And, to be honest, darling teachwriteslash puts it far better than I ever could.

Here's what I did:



They're not getting another dime out of me.

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[ran-aya.livejournal.com]

I tried the search toxoctattoo mentioned in LJ.

I nearly puked when I got the result:

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw_0_4?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=homosexuality&sprefix=homo

[rockangelxoxo.livejournal.com]

I followed your link and if I did not make a plan to stop using Amazon already, that would have done it.

[cyberdigi.livejournal.com]

*lurker popping in*
I'd heard about the parenting one (*gag*) but not everything on that list is as bad as that. I've checked several of the books "The Bible, Christianity, & Homosexuality", "Jesus, the Bible, and Homosexuality, Revised and Expanded Edition: Explode the Myths, Heal the Church" and "For The Bible Tells Me So" (this one is dvd). The last one "For the Bible told me so" seems to be a book about Christian families coming to terms to having a homosexual child. The other two appear to be books delving into the Bible to find what it really says about homosexuality and seems to come up with a decision against the popular knowledge of fundamentalist Christians (These two didn't have descriptions but that's what the comments seem to indicate)

So maybe if there is some sort of Christian reference books were safe from the derank?

[gracie-musica.livejournal.com]

Welcome lurker!

And I guess that both camps have our knee-jerks, to be honest. I know that, in my case, when I come across books with those titles, I automatically assume and pass it straight up.

I wonder if any Christian books got deranked...

[cyberdigi.livejournal.com]

My first thought when I saw the titles was suspicious as well but I thought I should just make sure (gag the comments for the parenting book are a bit disturbing)

I usually lurk for pretty much no other reason than I don't have anything important to say (I don't count "*drool* WANT MORE" and "<3" as something to break out of lurkdom to say) I found your journal via totally4ryo (anime transplant) and have to say I've been enjoying your stories.

For some strange reason I doubt that Christian books got hit, seems anything that had some sort to reference to sexual organs (if the article I found a bit ago is to be believed, it's what amazon is saying at the moment that several thousand other books were also affected) or GLBT were majorly hit.

[gracie-musica.livejournal.com]

*laughs* Lurkers are always welcome here. I tend to lurk as well, so there are no hard feelings. (and yay for anime transplant. *grins* Let me guess: FAKE?)

I doubt Christian books got hit as well, but I'm a suspicious little so-and-so like that. It sounds like -- to repeat myself -- a knee-jerk to someone saying something, to be honest.

[cyberdigi.livejournal.com]

FAKE, among many many many others (you should see my fav story folder), my first fandoms were Gundam Wing and Ronin Warriors.

Sounds like part of what lead to this is the use of using only certain key words in descriptions to identify "adult" content. Which didn't work (obviously) because a. just because that word appears in the content doesn't mean it's adult and b. books that should have been hit don't necessarily have those words in the description. Of course this is mostly assumption based on teach's observations and assuming that what amazon says happened is true.

[gracie-musica.livejournal.com]

Oh dear sweet Lord... *sigh* Thanks for the link.