WE WON, PEOPLE, WE WON

[erastes]

The rankings are coming back.

False Colors sits at number one in Gay Lit and at 25 in Historical Romance.

TAKE THAT AMAZON!

Transgressions’ rating should be back soon!

we won!!!

Comments

[lexin.livejournal.com]

Jubilation!

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

That is wonderful Erastes, it was a long weekend, but worth it. Now we only need to be careful to understand if they backpedal in total, or only for who complained. Elisa

[storm-grant.livejournal.com]

GYM DANDY hasn't got a ranking back, but it does have the "customers who bought" thing back.

Wow. We rule the internetz, eh? Should we start on world hunger next?

[rikibeth.livejournal.com]

What Elisa said about hoping they restore it across the board and not just to the authors who complained loudest.

I won't think we've REALLY won until they issue an apology for discriminatory behavior, but it's a damned good start.

[smurasaki.livejournal.com]

Yay!

[bloodrebel333.livejournal.com]

OH YES.

[lamardeuse.livejournal.com]

*flails*

[lusiology.livejournal.com]

Yay! About time some sense prevailed.

[l-prieto.livejournal.com]

Woo-hoo!

Now off to see if I can get Transgressions from B&N :)

[catsintheattic.livejournal.com]

Yay!

Just finished reading about it all, and I also signed the petition - though probably too late to make any difference.

[aunty_marion]

I don't think it's too late. The more people who make their feelings known about it, the less likely they are to pull something like this again.

[slashpine.livejournal.com]

yeah, well, when I see best-seller rankings back on Transgressions, Frost Fair and Standish I'll agree they've learned something.

OTOH, I was all yayyys this weekend every time I read blogs and news items quoting Mark Probst on this, or like Christiam Science Monitor this morning (http://features.csmonitor.com/books/2009/04/13/furor-over-amazon-ranking-system/), linking to his blog alerting us to this closeting of

"two newly-released high profile gay romance books: “Transgressions” by Erastes and “False Colors” by Alex Beecroft.

Not that I don't adore FC, but I so love and agree with this order! You're first in my book(s). And yayys on Amazon's stupidity for spreading the word on the goodness of gay romance fiction. {hugs Standish}

[vashtan.livejournal.com]

*hugs Standish*, too.

[vashtan.livejournal.com]

I am so, so, so happy for you. Congratulations!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Thank you, hun! I will never catch up with my emails.

[ilyena_sylph]

Awesome!

I'm so glad for you!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! I'm hugely weepy. I blame the champagne. Yes. Not a girly thing at all.

[lovefromgirl.livejournal.com]

Congratulations all! <3

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Thank you, hun!

[cruisedirector]

Awesome -- and I have gotten such a kick out of seeing your name in various articles from all over the US about this. *g*

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I'd be lying if I said I didn't.

Hee! Thank you hun!

xxx

[eledhwenlin]

WHEE! :D

[erastes.livejournal.com]

We rock. HARD. Don't mess with the m/m

[lg-larocque.livejournal.com]

When I read that, I thought of you immediately. While surfing, I stumbled upon this little gem and thought you might be quite interested.

http://news-briefs.ew.com/2009/04/amazon-gay.html?iid=top25-Amazon.com+under+criticism+for+de-ranking+gay-themed+books

"Glitch?" I'm skeptical. However, as long as it is fixed, I am very happy.

Cheers!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Glitch my gluteus maximus.

Thank you sweetie!

xxx

[essayel.livejournal.com]

Fan-bloody-tastic!! And I hope they kick the ass of whichever bigotted coder who let his 'moral conscience' get in the way of decency, common-sense and business ethics.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I hope they sack the "official spokesperson" who came out with the homophobic crap in the first place.

And we made the C4 news!

[lyras.livejournal.com]

Yay! That's brilliant news.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Isn't it? *skips *

[mongrelheart.livejournal.com]

w00t! I don't know if Amazon has realized the bigotry of their ways, or if they've just realized that people *buy* those books with *money*, but this is great news. And yay for more publicity for gay fiction!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Either it WAS a glitch (or a hacker as some moron is claiming) which i very much doubt - because why would it target teh ghey? or it was idiocy and they are backing down, but either way is fine by me.

:)

Hi.

[alyx-j-shaw.livejournal.com]

Hello. I'm very new to your LJ but I love your work. Um... I know this whole issue is sort of dead and gone now but I stumbled across this - http://community.livejournal.com/brutal_honesty/3168992.html - at one of my writer's groups. I have no idea if this guy is telling the truth or not but it certainly made me raise an eyebrow...

Re: Hi.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

How very kind of you - and it's always lovely to meet new people.

I rather think he might be "Done It Duncan"

I love your icon - I tried to make one similar, may I steal it?

[crawling-angel.livejournal.com]

Well thank fuck for that! I've been at work since Friday when all this was kicking off. I'm so glad this has all been sorted. I'll catch up tomorrow and see if they ever gave an excuse.

/end of first voddy speech.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I'M cava-ed up too! *waves drunken fingers*

[stacia-seaman.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't say that we "won."

If you look at the comments, and some articles by more conservative groups, it's clear that a whole lot of people are behind Amazon and might well start putting pressure on them to go back to the "GLBT as adult content" stance.

In the US in particular, this is a very small skirmish in a much larger cultural battle. Were it not for the non-gay erotica titles being affected, I have to say I doubt there'd be this much of an uproar.

[angelabenedetti.livejournal.com]

Whee! That's great. I'm glad someone over there has some fraction of a clue. :D

Angie

[lydia-petze.livejournal.com]

YES.

I'm still going to buy my shit elsewhere. I don't appreciate the disingenuousness they're showing after the fact.