Monday, April 13, 2009

Amazon may be censoring Queer SF…sigh

It seems that Amazon may be sending Queer SF lit into the netherworld. I don’t know how to feel about this. As a bookseller, I screamed and screamed as much as I could to warn people that letting any one place be the main distributor of books in our country was a really, really bad a idea. It didn’t seem like anyone really wanted to listen or even take me (or any other independent booksellers) seriously. One author, who shall remain nameless, even argued that Amazon was an independent bookstore. Sigh. I’m just too tired to fight this issue anymore. This is something that authors set themselves up for: always pointing to Amazon on their sites, never giving the small bookstores even a chance, on and on… Who the f*ck couldn’t see this coming? When Blockbuster owned the video distribution market, they did the same damn thing. And do we even need to talk about the record industry? Whenever you have a single company in control of the distribution of an art form, the art is sure to suffer. Always. Without exception. Again, sigh…

Posted by Jenn on 04/13/09 at 02:39 PM
Categories: Science Fiction • Bookselling • Politics