The controversy over the "glitch" that caused hundreds of books to lose their sales rankings on Amazon continues to rage on, and the company admits they are embarrassed by what they deem "a cataloging error."
Amazon claims its de-ranking of gay, feminist, and otherwise vile and degrading material is justa "glitch" — but many books are still rankless, and many people (including us) are still pissed.
If the list isn't enough, all you have to do is look at these two dating guide covers to see that Amazon's policy of removing sales rankings from "adult" materials is a total epic fail.
Just a note: we are keeping track of books being stripped of their Amazon sales rankings in our original Amazon Fail post. A few titles on the list: Full Frontal Feminism and Lady Chatterley's Lover.
According to author Mark R. Probst, Amazon.com has begun pulling the sales rank numbers from several gay and lesbian books, claiming that the books are "adult" and should be excluded from some searches and lists.
