“We have put up our display of ‘Books Amazon Doesn’t Want You to Read.'”–@Vromans tweet in reaction to Amazon’s de-ranking of LGBTQ books (Shelf Awareness, April 13, 2009).
In a subsequent bookstore blog post titled, “Amazonfail & The Cost of Freedom” Vroman’s observed that “independent publisher sales rep John Mesjak put it best when he tweeted this statement: ‘I haven’t read all of #amazonfail, so I am likely repeating, but my takeaway: this S#!T happens with monoculture gatekeepers. ”
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