Re: [UUPoly-L] Anti-gay discrimination on Amazon.com -- or just aBantown troll?

[Keith Brown <keithb@nfnc.org>]

This from Amazon...

This is an embarrassing and ham-fisted cataloging error for a company that
prides itself on offering complete selection.

   It has been misreported that the issue was limited to Gay & Lesbian
themed titles - in fact, it impacted 57,310 books in a number of broad
categories such as Health, Mind & Body, Reproductive & Sexual Medicine, and
Erotica.  This problem impacted books not just in the United States but
globally.  It affected not just sales rank but also had the effect of
removing the books from Amazon's main product search.

   Many books have now been fixed and we're in the process of fixing the
remainder as quickly as possible, and we intend to implement new measures to
make this kind of accident less likely to occur in the future.

Amazon.com IR