Via my friends list:
over the last few days Amazon.com removed the sales rankings from various gay themed booksSee more
at Copperbadge's LJ, and at
rm's place
here, with
follow-up.
I haven't noticed it yet on amazon.de (I checked the
short list given by
xtricks), and a bunch of books I could think of, and only one was not sales-ranked. I'm keeping an eye on it.
One one hand, wtf sales ranks? OTOH, wehret den Anfängen.
ETA: Have written letter. It's painfully formal and stilted. Going to send it tomorrow. Ideally spiced with some examples that make sense from my buying history.
ETA II:
This is kind of interesting:
Meta-Trolls? Pandagon, with a lot of writers affected by the fail closely connected,
discusses the Meta-troll theory. This includes explanation of what sales rank
does, which I did not know.
ETA III:
Have sent mail. Even if amazon has fallen victim to trollery or a technical SNAFU,
something is wrong here and I dislike getting no clarification from them. Now I hope they fix it and apologize, because amazon has always worked very well for me and I would regret following up on my mail by actually finding someone else to buy from.
ETA IV:
According to internet gossip,
amazon says the French did it. I'm tired of internet gossip at this point. I'll read some slash instead.