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Amazon Rank

For those such as myself just finding out about this: Amazon has begun stripping the sales rankings and figures from books that include a) erotica, or b) LGBTQ content. While they will still show up on directed searches, this means they are very unlikely to turn up in content searches, through general browsing, or in any best-seller lists they have earned their way onto.

Under the argument that they are removing 'adult content' from general perusal they have stripped the rankings from works including young adult novels, general fiction, non-fiction, self-help books, and autobiographies that contain gay/lesbian content. There's a separate argument to be made regarding the censoring of adult content; of particular concern, however, is the clear extension of this policy to non-explicit, non-erotic works.

There's a list of growing scope here, Dear Author covers the story here, and Smart Bitches, Trashy Books discusses the Google Bombing here.