Amazon.com decided it wanted to get rid of user ratings for adult materials. This was because when someone wanted to see a list of items categorized by user ratings ranks - many of the adult items were rated very high and would find their way into the lists of online shoppers not looking for XXX media. However, when Amazon stripped the ratings from those books, it also happened to strip the ratings from all LGBT publications - adult or not. The titles included in this are D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover and James Baldwins' Giovanni's Room. This is detrimental to sales of those publications and the online community is wondering why this happened and if there was prejudicial play involved. I tend to think it was a programming mistake in the website coding but who knows! After all - Lady Chatterley got the ax but Playboy: The Complete Centerfolds did not. Hmmmmmmm.......Story from the NY Daily News here.
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