First off… an excellent entry from Erastes: http://erastes.livejournal.com/374583.html
and Dear Author: http://dearauthor.com/wordpress/2009/04/12/amazon-censors-its-rankings-search-results-to-protect-us-against-glbt-books/
Since those two posts explain it far better than I could, I’m just providing some linky love.
How this affects me? My Samhain Print book, which does have M/M content, has no ranking. None of my EC books have ranking. One print book put out by Pink Petal Books has ranking, though the metadata doesn’t say anything about adult or erotic. It is M/F erotic feline shape shifter romance. The one YA book (a lovely pagan YA book) published by my company (which you have to get… seriously. It’s that awesome), does have it’s ranking. It also contains one very sweet lesbian scene between friends, though that is not the focus of the book.
Some speculation is that books that are published through Createspace, Amazon’s POD arm, are not affected, and my experience tends to support this.
In more EC shenanigans – apparently in spite of the fact that all rights reverted to me and all print sales ceased in January, I see that my book Prodigal Son is still showing up new at both Barnes & Noble and Amazon. (Pssst, if you want the book, I still have authors copies available that I’m offering and I’ll autograph it. Plus they’re cheaper). I have contacted EC, but do not expect much.
(Posting Amazon Rank again because a Google Bomb rocks so much more than a f’bomb.)
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