In consideration of our entire customer base, we exclude “adult” material from appearing in some searches and best seller lists. The following is the customer service email heard ’round the world: His sales rank no longer showed up on the page for his books. Over the weekend, the writer Mark Probst wrote a blog post that exposed a strange situation at. (Sorry, Alex! I love you!) But I want to explain in a central place my feelings on the matter, and I want to provide some evidence to back up my assertions that this new policy is not a policy whatsoever, but rather an actual glitch, if one very wacky - and deeply problematic. I may have pissed off some folks by playing Devil’s advocate with my typical Internet snark.
Well, it probably wasn’t my reticence that annoyed. I think I’ve pissed off some of my friends and colleagues over the last couple days by not being as quick to boycott Amazon for their newly discovered “policy” concerning “adult” books.
