Amazon de-ranking "adult" books, including GLBTQ literature.

cleolinda wrote an excellent summary of the whole thing here.

Basically, Amazon is de-ranking anything they find to be "adult" in content. This means these books won't show up on their bestseller list no matter how many copies are sold, and may be excluded from searches, damaging sales of the books. This filter is being applied arbitrarily and is including books that critique military policy, books with GLBTQ characters or subject matter, feminist literature, books on disability topics, books on general sexuality (that aren't about straight, able-bodied, white folks), YA books, books on preventing teen suicide, and others. Playboy, books by mainstream pornstars, Mein Kampf, books on dogfighting, books on how to "cure" and prevent homosexuality, and various other explicit publications are still being ranked, of course.

Amazon says it's "a glitch", but we all know that's bullshit, and it was predicted by many sources that they would try to worm their way out of this with that explanation.

Here's a list of some of the books that have been stripped of their ranking.


On the plus side, I have a nice new list of GLBTQ fiction to read.