Amazon is made of fail and Amazon Rank

In case you have not yet discovered this, news broke out across the 'net on Sunday that Amazon has instated an "adult policy" and removed ranking for books with sexual, erotic, romantic, gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered or queer content, for any audience.

For an explanation of the new, improved definition for the term "Amazon ranked", please help yourself. And if you would like to go further, go on over to Urban Dictionary and vote for this new and more accurate definition, here.

For more information on the story, here are links to some blogs and links that might be useful, as well as the blogs of some fellow GoogleBombers:
Smart Bitches, Trashy Books: Amazon Rank.
Smart Bitches, Trashy Books, again:Their Latest Post
Booksquare.com: Open Letter to Amazon, including List of Sites for Commentary
Petition at Care2: In Protest of Amazon's New Adult Policy
Publisher's Weekly Article in which Amazon Says It Was A Glitch:Article
Dear Author's Analysis:Amazon Rank
Article and following in LA Times Bookblog:How it Broke and What They Said
Tracking the Story on Twitter:AmazonFail
Babbling About Books:Amazon, Why Have You Forsaken the Erotic?
Abriendo Puertas:AmazonRank
Calliope's Hearth:AmazonRank
YouTube:AmazonFails
Peach's Ponderings:Speedy Sunday
Sierra Dafoe:Amazon stripping erotic and GLBTQ titles of ratings
Mark R. Probst:Amazon follies
Urbzen:Making Books Disappear
Susie Bright:Let's Be Adults, Shall We?
Neil Gaiman:AmazonFailSunday
Making Light:Amazon's Very Bad Day
The Guardian:"Gay Writing" Falls Foul of Amazon Sales Ranking System

Apparently Amazon has issued an apology and repaired the situation. If this is the case, maybe, just maybe, I will buy from them again.