I see a bad moon rising

[truepenny]

This is appalling. And infuriating. And Not Okay.

(My books have not been stripped of their sales rankings--I just went and looked. But clearly they should be.)

ETA: Smart Bitches, Trashy Books FTW: Amazon Rank.

ETA2: Nicola Griffith, who is seriously one of the most awesome sf writers I've ever had the chance to fangirl in person, is among the authors affected. If there was anything needed to make me angrier (which there wasn't), this would have been it.

Comments

[girlpunksamurai.livejournal.com]

Any place, be it website or actual bookstore, that degrades, looks down upon, or intentionally leaves off the shelf, any kind of book genre' ought to be shunned out of business

We're back in the stuffy 1800's again? Really? Well then c'mon and join my religion-GFY (Go F*** Yourself) >.<

I love it when people that are heads of their own company/industry use their wealth and influence to show, in many petty ways, this being one of them, just how butthurt backwards they are. I find what they find to be 'controversial' to be good writing done by good writers. How about the fact that conservatives are still whining that same old song as they were in the Great Depression, and had they gotten their way then, would have worsened it's effects on the country dramatically-yet they're still saying the same old crap. Why isn't that controversial?

Why aren't places like Amazon getting all butthurt over what is outrageous ignorance of history on the part of senators, congress, conservatives in particular who supposedly got themselves a college degree or is in fact deliberately omitted by them because there are plenty of people in this country who couldn't afford college and therefore don't know these precedents exist?

Don't Buy Thai was a spearhead movement that eventually gained enough influence to change Taiwan laws in regards to 'child prostitution' into stricter penalties if abused. Yet in many states, the incest loophole keeps the 'father' of his child victim out of jail/ How come there aren't any companies considering that 'controversial'? The only thing true, is what you do. And these spineless, dithering, prejudiced wet brains just flashed us nastily with what's true to them I say we do our level best, drive them out of business and show them just how much art can imitate life.