UPDATE: April 14th
Dear friends,
Thank you for your e-mails to me and Amazon and letting people know about what is now being called a "glitch" at Amazon. I believe the national outrcry about removing the rankings from books with "gay" content has sent a wake up call to Amazon that they need to pay more attention to the books they are labeling "adult themed." I must tell you it was quite a shock to see my ranking removed because it was considered "adult themed" and Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer was not considered "adult themed." Anyhow, my ranking for Why You Should Give A Damn About Gay Marriage is back and Amazon has apologized and promised to "implement new measures" to keep this from happening again.
Thank you again for standng up for LGBT people.
Davina
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Dear Friends,
My heart is beating so fast as I share this extremely upsetting news with you. Amazon just stripped the sales ranking indicators for all books with anything that has to do with gay content and they are calling it "adult" material. On 1/3/09, the last time I checked my Amazon book ranking, for Why You Should Give a Damn About Gay Marriage, it was 91,602. I was horrified when I received an e-mail today telling me about Amazon's new policy and went to the site myself and found my rank missing. I searched other books like Eckhart Tolle's The New Earth and a new favorite The Michaelangelo Method which ranks at #366,419 in Books still have their ranking. Evan Wolfson's Why Marriage Matters has lost his ranking, but Focus on the Family's Glen Stanton's anti-gay Why Marriage Matters book has a rank.
Friends, I am sorry, but my hands are shaking and I am burning in my stomach acids at this RAW INJUSTICE. I'm asking you to boycott Amazon.com until they rectify this egregious act. And please share this with everyone. We cannot allow gay people to be treated this way.
Please read and sign the petition: In protest at Amazon's new "adult" policy
If you wish to contact Investor Relations at Amazon ir@amazon.comTo read more, see Mark Probst's article here.
Thank you,
Davina
