Couple of follow-up links to AmazonFail:
GalleyCat:
Amazon Admits Ham-fisted catalog Error: Amazon reports that 57,310 titles in categories including Health, Mind & Body, and Erotica were affected by a "embarrassing and ham-fisted cataloging error."
DearAuthor:
Amazon Offers up Metadata Error as Excuse: It is clear that ranking can have very adverse affects and without any transparency regarding this issue, the hamfisted mistake can be trotted out a dozen times to explain a “glitch” that probably
Published on April 13, 2009 17:05