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Amazon hiding LGBT books
Apr. 12th, 2009 04:05 pmOh joy. There's been some suspicion over the last few days that Amazon has been hiding LGBT books (and possibly small press het erotica) from general view by removing the sales rankings so they don't show up unless you actively search for them by title or author. There'd been a lot of bland evasion when the authors asked them about it. Now a publisher has asked via a publisher-orientated back-channel, and been told that yes, it *is* very deliberate censorship of the "adult" titles to keep them out of general view. And in the case of LGBT titles, it's not just the smut that's been hidden. The YA titles are being suppressed from view as well.
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I don't normally make a point of this, but in this case I think it's necessary: I'm Kinsey 0, i.e. very, *very* straight. I am, at least on the surface, one of the people Amazon thinks needs to be protected from exposure to That Sort Of Thing. Thanks, but I don't really need to be protected from the knowledge that YA gay literature exists, at least not while you're still happy to show me the raunchiest of mainstream bonkbusters and airport novels.
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storm_grant's post here: http://storm-grant.livejournal.com/160240.htmlI don't normally make a point of this, but in this case I think it's necessary: I'm Kinsey 0, i.e. very, *very* straight. I am, at least on the surface, one of the people Amazon thinks needs to be protected from exposure to That Sort Of Thing. Thanks, but I don't really need to be protected from the knowledge that YA gay literature exists, at least not while you're still happy to show me the raunchiest of mainstream bonkbusters and airport novels.
