Amazon FAIL (or: Twilight Made Me Gay)

My response to Amazon's recent policy change, where they strip books they claim to have adult content of their search functionality, ranking, and listing. Books on homosexuality, even those that do NOT have adult content, are included in this digital blacklist-- (see #amazonfail on twitter for a play by play of the whole thing).
www.jacksonpearce.com
AS YOU WISH (HarperCollins) is available for pre-order here: http://s7y.us/obg

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[WickedFabala]

i would like to say YOU ARE AMAZING!!

[JacksonAPearce]

Thanks :)

[jhfisk]

i meant to tell you.

you are my hero.

[JacksonAPearce]

Haha, thanks! :)

[slyfoot3]

Mark Probst: "I do not believe that there was any malicious intent. Case closed." tinyurl[dot]com/c89tya

Hanlon's Razor: "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity."

[JacksonAPearce]

So many levels of not that simple: Even if it was a glitch and they're corrected it, all the effected books have now suffered immeasurable sales loss as a result. As an author, I constantly stalk my sales rank, because that determines where I appear in an Amazon search. Books stripped of their search functionality naturally have sold fewer copies (potentially since Feb), and therefore even when the problem is corrected, will have a low search rank and thus cont. to sell less.

[BookNutSimmer]

this is hilarious aha xx

[bigtony909ca]

@kankakaratestyle no worries. I absolutely adore Jackson Pearce.

[kankakaratestyle]

@bigtony909ca ooops. i thought you were reffering to her. lol sorry!

[bigtony909ca]

@kankakaratestyle what was that for?

[kankakaratestyle]

@bigtony909ca you suck.

[kankakaratestyle]

@kankakaratestyle this has nothing to do with amazon but instead bad customer service.

i once spent weeks trying to get the codes for some dlc i had purchased at gamestop (you suck!) (the reciept got ruined) and in the end they said quote "There's nothing we can do since you wrote on them" (i tried to patch them) I TOLD THEM A MILLION TIMES I HAD WRITTEN ON THEM EVIDENTLY THEY CAN'T HEAR! (this was xbox live customer service) the service was good... they just suck at understanding.

ugh.

[kankakaratestyle]

awesome. amazon sucks.

[CompletelyOlivia]

Did they ever resolve it??

By the way, you're my new hero :D

[controlchick]

LMFAO, I love you.

[madelinimartini]

I am tempted to call customer service...