Comments on: Why care about Amazon sales rank?

By: Lilly Medin

Lilly Medin — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 18:38:39 +0000

I just found this site a while back when a friend of mine recommended it to me. I’ve been an avid reader ever since.

By: Anon

Anon — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 04:20:04 +0000

Hmm….yeah, I guess I agree with that. Goodness, I’ve heard so many different reasons for what happened that it’s all starting to sound suspicious. I would assume that it is indeed a glitch on Amazon’s part. It makes no sense to me that Amazon would suddenly start tinkering with its censorship when it makes little business sense to do so, and when it will clearly meet with a resounding backlash.

By: Sarah Anderson

Sarah Anderson — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 00:37:53 +0000

What’s the status? Because, you know, CM is my only source of “market” and wereruminant info. Do we need to complain or is it being fixed?

I wrote papers on Fanny Hill in grad school. Let me tell you how hard it was to find ten years ago. Whether people like it or not, porn is a part of the social fabric of a time and place, and studying how people and sex acts are represented in a time and place is another window into a culture.

I’m just saying.

By: Courtney Milan

Courtney Milan — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 00:06:31 +0000

There is no possibility of that. The “hacker” is a known troll, and the exploit he claimed would work in fact did not, and furthermore, the works that he claims he targeted were not the ones targeted by Amazon.

Besides, Amazon has already said that it was the result of a “cataloguing error” today–not a hacker.

Sorry.

By: Anon

Anon — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 00:01:34 +0000

Hi Courtney,

There is a possibility that this was indeed the work of a hacker, actually…. it just doesn’t make sense to me for Amazon to do something that will so obviously blow up in their face.

Here’s the article about the hacker: http://i.gizmodo.com/5210424/hacker-claims-he-shoved-amazon-into-the-closet-using-inappropriate-flag-exploit