Comments on: AmazonFAIL and the bookseller’s new “adult” (read: homophobic) policy http://fictionwritersreview.com/blog/amazonfail-and-the-booksellers-new-adult-read-homophobic-policy fiction matters Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:57:32 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: Peggy http://fictionwritersreview.com/blog/amazonfail-and-the-booksellers-new-adult-read-homophobic-policy/comment-page-1#comment-2323 Peggy Wed, 15 Apr 2009 02:39:23 +0000 http://fictionwritersreview.com/?p=2897#comment-2323 still fishy. and decidedly not foxy. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/14/technology/internet/14amazon.html?scp=1&sq=twitter,%20amazon&st=Search still fishy. and decidedly not foxy.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/14/technology/internet/14amazon.html?scp=1&sq=twitter,%20amazon&st=Search

]]> By: Colleen Stameshkin http://fictionwritersreview.com/blog/amazonfail-and-the-booksellers-new-adult-read-homophobic-policy/comment-page-1#comment-2314 Colleen Stameshkin Tue, 14 Apr 2009 00:14:47 +0000 http://fictionwritersreview.com/?p=2897#comment-2314 For more information and speculation on this, check out the Seattle PI. For more information and speculation on this, check out the Seattle PI.

]]> By: Celeste http://fictionwritersreview.com/blog/amazonfail-and-the-booksellers-new-adult-read-homophobic-policy/comment-page-1#comment-2313 Celeste Mon, 13 Apr 2009 22:39:55 +0000 http://fictionwritersreview.com/?p=2897#comment-2313 Yes, let's leave Foxes out of this. Yes, let’s leave Foxes out of this.

]]> By: Peggy http://fictionwritersreview.com/blog/amazonfail-and-the-booksellers-new-adult-read-homophobic-policy/comment-page-1#comment-2311 Peggy Mon, 13 Apr 2009 19:49:04 +0000 http://fictionwritersreview.com/?p=2897#comment-2311 Thanks, Anne--I fb posted this. And I'm with you, Preeta. Fishy fishy, too. James Baldwin! Annie Proulx! Dorothy Allison! Grrrr. Still, I can't help but be happy for a reason to boycott Amazon, and take our business back to our local bookstores. Thanks, Anne–I fb posted this. And I’m with you, Preeta. Fishy fishy, too. James Baldwin! Annie Proulx! Dorothy Allison! Grrrr. Still, I can’t help but be happy for a reason to boycott Amazon, and take our business back to our local bookstores.

]]> By: Preeta Samarasan http://fictionwritersreview.com/blog/amazonfail-and-the-booksellers-new-adult-read-homophobic-policy/comment-page-1#comment-2307 Preeta Samarasan Mon, 13 Apr 2009 17:16:46 +0000 http://fictionwritersreview.com/?p=2897#comment-2307 ARGH! They can't turn around and call this a glitch when THEY THEMSELVES responded to Probst explaining it as an intentional policy! I've seen a few comments floating around on other blogs to the effect that it *surely* must have been a glitch because they have never been pro-censorship or homophobic before, but COME ON -- to me, the fact that they sent that stiff Victorian explanation to Probst completely vitiates the "glitch" excuse. They are being so snakey, ratty, weaselly, foxy, okay, not foxy, but whatever other sly animal adjective you might choose. ARGH! They can’t turn around and call this a glitch when THEY THEMSELVES responded to Probst explaining it as an intentional policy! I’ve seen a few comments floating around on other blogs to the effect that it *surely* must have been a glitch because they have never been pro-censorship or homophobic before, but COME ON — to me, the fact that they sent that stiff Victorian explanation to Probst completely vitiates the “glitch” excuse. They are being so snakey, ratty, weaselly, foxy, okay, not foxy, but whatever other sly animal adjective you might choose.

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