Comments on: amazonfail – 10 unanswered questions http://www.publishingtalk.eu/amazon/amazonfail-10-unanswered-questions/ Mashing up Books and Social Media Tue, 31 Jan 2012 12:10:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Andrea http://www.publishingtalk.eu/amazon/amazonfail-10-unanswered-questions/#comment-220 Andrea Thu, 16 Apr 2009 01:56:26 +0000 http://www.publishingtalk.eu/blog/?p=396#comment-220 11. When are you going to say sorry? (Worth repeating from karmacreep's comment.) 14. Some books on disability and sexuality were affected also, including a sociology textbook. Do you understand that, yes, people with disabilities do have sex too? And that consenting adults with disabilities have the right to have sex and to enjoy it on the same basis as anyone else (meaning, if they can find a consenting adult partner, etc.) Do you understand that people with disabilities are already incorrectly stereotyped as being necessarily asexual, uninterested in sex, unable to have sex, or as being people for whom it would be morally wrong to have sex? And that making it harder to locate accurate information on the subject really doesn't help? More on the disability angle of the #amazonfail situation: http://reunifygally.wordpress.com/2009/04/13/amazonfail-hurts-both-disability-and-glbt-communities/ 11. When are you going to say sorry? (Worth repeating from karmacreep’s comment.)

14. Some books on disability and sexuality were affected also, including a sociology textbook. Do you understand that, yes, people with disabilities do have sex too? And that consenting adults with disabilities have the right to have sex and to enjoy it on the same basis as anyone else (meaning, if they can find a consenting adult partner, etc.) Do you understand that people with disabilities are already incorrectly stereotyped as being necessarily asexual, uninterested in sex, unable to have sex, or as being people for whom it would be morally wrong to have sex? And that making it harder to locate accurate information on the subject really doesn’t help?

More on the disability angle of the #amazonfail situation:

http://reunifygally.wordpress.com/2009/04/13/amazonfail-hurts-both-disability-and-glbt-communities/

]]> By: Tom http://www.publishingtalk.eu/amazon/amazonfail-10-unanswered-questions/#comment-219 Tom Wed, 15 Apr 2009 22:21:00 +0000 http://www.publishingtalk.eu/blog/?p=396#comment-219 >> Do you remember when Margaret Atwood and others boycotted The Dubai Festival in February, because one gay book was banned? Does this make the UAE more liberal than Amazon? Yea, easy with that, she later said she was mislead into believing the book was banned for a book which wasn't even published. See every media reported she wasn't participating, but only or two updated their readers with the latter incident of her apologies. the world we live in :( >> Do you remember when Margaret Atwood and others boycotted The Dubai Festival in February, because one gay book was banned? Does this make the UAE more liberal than Amazon?

Yea, easy with that, she later said she was mislead into believing the book was banned for a book which wasn’t even published. See every media reported she wasn’t participating, but only or two updated their readers with the latter incident of her apologies. the world we live in :(

]]> By: jon http://www.publishingtalk.eu/amazon/amazonfail-10-unanswered-questions/#comment-218 jon Wed, 15 Apr 2009 20:13:36 +0000 http://www.publishingtalk.eu/blog/?p=396#comment-218 Great questions!!!!! jon Great questions!!!!!

jon

]]> By: mia http://www.publishingtalk.eu/amazon/amazonfail-10-unanswered-questions/#comment-217 mia Wed, 15 Apr 2009 16:19:13 +0000 http://www.publishingtalk.eu/blog/?p=396#comment-217 13. You said you had 57,310 books involved in the "cataloging error," most of which were not LGBT specific. Prove it. Give us--readers, potential un-boycotters, publishers, and authors--the names of those books. 13. You said you had 57,310 books involved in the “cataloging error,” most of which were not LGBT specific. Prove it. Give us–readers, potential un-boycotters, publishers, and authors–the names of those books.

]]> By: karmacreep http://www.publishingtalk.eu/amazon/amazonfail-10-unanswered-questions/#comment-216 karmacreep Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:11:59 +0000 http://www.publishingtalk.eu/blog/?p=396#comment-216 11. When are you going to say sorry? 12. Did you know that I've just spent 20 quid at play.com that would otherwise have come your way? 11. When are you going to say sorry?
12. Did you know that I’ve just spent 20 quid at play.com that would otherwise have come your way?

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