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Amazon Censors Gay Books
Amazon's book store "cataloging error" led to books containing gay and lesbian themes to lose their sales ranking, therefore losing visibility on the sales platform.
- Date it happened
- 2008-05-23
- Organisation involved
- Amazon
- Product, system or model
- A book's sales rank indicates its popularity, which affects its level of promotion by Amazon's product recommender system.
Where this came from
- dearauthor.com
- seattletimes.com
- independent.co.uk
- queerty.com
- cnet.com
- consumerist.com
- edition.cnn.com
- sfgate.com
- whyweprotest.net
- nouse.co.uk
- wiredpen.com
- theguardian.com
- edrants.com
- irishtimes.com
- dailymail.co.uk
- digitaljournal.com
- nytimes.com
- latimesblogs.latimes.com
- en.wikinews.org
- theregister.co.uk
- gawker.com
- wired.com
- meta-writer.livejournal.com
- huffingtonpost.com
Attribution
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