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taerowynSo apparently it was a "cataloging error"?
"This is an embarrassing and ham-fisted cataloging error," Drew Herdener, spokesman for the online retailer, wrote in a statement.
"It has been misreported that the issue was limited to gay- and lesbian-themed titles," he said. "In fact, it impacted 57,310 books in a number of broad categories such as health, mind and body, reproductive and sexual medicine, and erotica."
Part of me would like to give them the benefit of the doubt that it was a technical not judgmental error...but the conspiracy theorist in me can also see how those "broad" categories could all be classifications for different sorts of GLBT titles. Guess we'll never know for sure...
"This is an embarrassing and ham-fisted cataloging error," Drew Herdener, spokesman for the online retailer, wrote in a statement.
"It has been misreported that the issue was limited to gay- and lesbian-themed titles," he said. "In fact, it impacted 57,310 books in a number of broad categories such as health, mind and body, reproductive and sexual medicine, and erotica."
Part of me would like to give them the benefit of the doubt that it was a technical not judgmental error...but the conspiracy theorist in me can also see how those "broad" categories could all be classifications for different sorts of GLBT titles. Guess we'll never know for sure...