Amazon 2.9 per cent today

Despite the recovery attempt by the broader markets, Amazon (AMZN | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) is down 2.9 percent on the day, pulling back further off the more than six-month closing high it set last Thursday. The loss comes after analysts at Benchmark initiated coverage of the online retailer with a Sell rating.

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AMZN stock losses in the wake of #amazonfail

Keep it up folks. Vote with your wallets. I don't want to shop on a site where I can't be sure I'm getting everything I want to look at. It is not Amazon's job to vet my reading material.

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See it here

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Amazonfailfest continues to fester:

I just checked Twitter and #Amazonfail is still going strong

And here's A new link to read.

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Amazon Says Listing Problem Was an Error, Not a Hack

Weev's claims are false, Amazon's Smith said.

Former Amazon employee Mike Daisey said that the problem really did appear to have been caused by an employee mistake.

A friend within the company told him that someone working on Amazon's French site mistagged a number of keyword categories, including the "Gay and Lesbian" category, as pornographic, using what's known internally as the Browse Nodes tool. Soon the mistake affected Amazon sites worldwide, Daisey said in an interview. "If you use that tool in one site, it affects every site in Amazon. So the guy screwed up in France and it propagated everywhere," he said.

Daisey, a monologist who spent three years at Amazon, was amused that Weev's claims had been so widely reported, given that Weev has made a name for himself as an online "troll" who lies for fun. "I think it's hilarious that he's gotten as much traction as he has with the story because his whole modus operandi is about pranking people."

Amazon goes for 3rd reason lucky over #AmazonFail

LJ user claims he hacked Amazon to derank books

That's

weev posting at

brutal_honesty today.

I'm not sure what I believe about it, since this deranking has been going on since february. Maybe the hacker helped things along. But That doesn't answer all my questions.

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xof : Of course we're censoring. We just didn't mean to censor that.

Lilithsaintcrow : This Is Not A Glitch, #amazonfail

Smart Bitches: Amazon Rank

Is Amazon.com Homophobic?

What is Amazon Doing to LGBT, Sexuality Titles and Search?

Why Is Amazon Removing The Sales Rankings From Gay, Lesbian Books?

Is this book (or its author) too gay for an Amazon?

#Amazonfail

Lisy Babe's Blog

The Rank Smell of Censorship From Amazon.com: AKA “Amazon Rank”

Okay so lotsa links!

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Amazon policy on LGBT books spurs twitter uprising

Amazon's official response to the disappearing sales rankings is that it was a "glitch" that would be fixed.
But that explanation seems only to have angered people and sparked calls of homophobia. Twitter users began adding the tag #glitchmyass fuelling even more fire to the PR crisis.

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This from their terms of use. Amazon is supposedly for adults only. So where does the deranking "adult" books come from anyway? Like the twitter folks said #glicthmyass.

"Amazon does sell products for children, but it sells them to adults, who can purchase with a credit card or other permitted payment method. If you are under 18, you may use Amazon.com only with involvement of a parent or guardian."

From Amazon's Conditions of Use policy.

Another screen cap courtesy

entrenous88

Who got it from

secretsolitaire in her post about the Amazon fail fest...

And then there's

rydra_wong 's post about the Amazonfuckingfailfest with interesting links.

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If you can't load the page here's a screen cap of the Publisher's Weekly article:

Courtesy of lit_gal

Here's some more explanation or is that a wannabe explanation?

Got this from

lit_gal's update...

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Amazon customer service

800-201-7575

Amazon Board of Directors

Thomas O. Ryder (914) 244-5782
William Gordon (650) 233-2750
Myrtle Potter (650) 225-1000
Alain Monie (206) 266-1000
L. John Doerr (650) 233-2750
Tom Alberg (206) 674-3000
Patricia Stonesifer (206) 709-3140

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If you're wondering why that's important, well when you do a search on Amazon, other titles pop up on the same page as the item you were searching for, and what determines the titles that pop up to be viewd are the sales rankings.

Amazon claims that it's the "adult" material they're hiding, but there is still adult stuff popping up/ It's only the gay books that have disappeared. Now, I've done a lot of shopping on Amazon in the past two years since eBay started really going downhill. It looks like I'm going to be doing much less shopping at Amazon, especially books.

If you're concerned about this situation, contact Amazon to tell them how you feel about it.

http://www.edrants.com/amazonfail-a-call-to-boycott-amazon/

http://markprobst.livejournal.com/15293.html

http://community.livejournal.com/meta_writer/11992.html

http://community.livejournal.com/meta_writer/11369.html

http://c-smith-author.livejournal.com/20968.html

I snagged some links from

lit_gal in this post (LJ user)

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And a few other odds and ends..#Amazonfail, #glitchmyass

Is Amazon.com Homophobic?

What is Amazon Doing to LGBT, Sexuality Titles and Search?

Why Is Amazon Removing The Sales Rankings From Gay, Lesbian Books?

Is this book (or its author) too gay for an Amazon?

#Amazonfail

Lisy Babe's Blog

The Rank Smell of Censorship From Amazon.com: AKA “Amazon Rank”

Amazon policy on LGBT books spurs twitter uprising

Another screen cap if the last one gets too busy!

Screen cap of Publisher's weekly article

Okay update:

Amazon contact numbers!

Amazon strips sales rankings of "Gay" books..

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