Chronicles of the Backlash, Episode Eight: Amazon Disappears Queer Books
I imagine anyone who reads this blog has already heard (via) about Amazon.com's seeming revision of their search engine and sales rankings to make GLBTQ books harder to find -- not quite making them disappear, but invisible to normal searches. One writer whose book had vanished got this stock response:In consideration of our entire customer base, we exclude “adult” material from appearing in some