[ExI] Amazon is Beginning to Delist Some Books

Antonio Marcos amcmr2003 at yahoo.com.br
Tue Apr 14 00:08:17 UTC 2009


So, after the list of all-time best-sellers are we finally going to get to see a list of all-time worst-sellers? =)

Cheers,
AM.

--- Em seg, 13/4/09, B.K. DeLong <bkdelong at pobox.com> escreveu:

> De: B.K. DeLong <bkdelong at pobox.com>
> Assunto: Re: [ExI] Amazon is Beginning to Delist Some Books
> Para: "ExI chat list" <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
> Data: Segunda-feira, 13 de Abril de 2009, 17:31
> Possibly. Like I said - my
> supposition. I'm disappointed at the speed
> at which the Amazon PR machine is reacting to this by
> telling
> absolutely outraged customers "it's a glitch" they're
> fixing, please
> don't close their accounts. yet.....they're not
> communicating on the
> same technological channels this potential
> misinformation/information
> is spreading.
> 
> On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 3:54 PM, Dan <dan_ust at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > --- On Mon, 4/13/09, B.K. DeLong <bkdelong at pobox.com>
> wrote:
> >> There is FAR more to this. Search
> >> "Twitter" (#amazonfail &
> >> #glitchmyass) and Google for "Amazon Fail".
> >>
> >> Also see the posts from earlier this AM in:
> >> http://community.livejournal.com/meta_writer
> >>
> >> Personally, I believe someone figured out how to
> exploit
> >> the Amazon
> >> API to the point where anything tagged as having
> GLBT
> >> content had
> >> their Sales Ranking removed. If that's the case
> and others
> >> figured it
> >> out just as fast (including before Amazon
> developers), we
> >> could see
> >> this happen to other books as well.
> >
> > If that's so, then this isn't Amazon playing Big
> Brother, but just someone hacking their site, no?
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Dan
> >
> >
> >
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