It may actually be the biggest store, period. It sells damned near everything, damned near everywhere.
Erotica is porn with class pretensions.
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Isnât most written porn referred to as erotica, regardless of intended audience? Most definitions of the word seem to be along the lines of âliterature or art intended to arouse sexual desireâ.
Nope. Some of it is just porn. The difference between say a Penthouse Forum Letter and a Harlequin romance novel.
Better grammar and correct anatomical descriptions?
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More metaphors and better grammar, also plot, actual plots apart from âso I ordered pizza and this babe delivered the pie and more!â
Theyâll make TV series out of lady wank erotica, have they ever made TV series out of penthouse letter?
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I was thinking Outlander, but sure, we can have more than one example sure. 
I donât think that the issue has been slugged out in court yet (anyone feel free to chime in if this is false); but the potentially tricky bit is that, in this case, âsearch engine tinkeringâ and âarranging stock on our shelvesâ are effectively the same thing.
Architecturally, itâs definitely search engine tinkering(Amazon uses the engine developed by their A9 subsidiary for product listings, among other purposes, and Iâm guessing that A9 is competent enough to find an unusual name); but that tinkering is simply a means to arrange items on the closest analogy to âshelvesâ that an online retailer with a catalog too large for easy application of terrible spatial-metaphor-UI-horrors has; and retailers are generally acknowledged to have the right(and they pay a lot of attention to how to use it most profitably) to arrange the products that they carry in whatever layout amuses them.
Amazon probably has enough market power for a potential argument to be made along those lines; but their behavior, in itself, looks pretty similar to walking into a pharmacy and discovering that the store brand vitamins are nicely at eye level, with brightly colored price tags, while the name brand ones are close enough to guide you to the store brand; but close to the floor and a pain to reach.
They are hyperaggressive, efficient, and apparently willing to lose modest amounts of money every quarter more or less indefinitely, so Amazon is legitimately scary; but I wouldnât want to argue with the legality of what they are doing here unless I was bringing an antitrust/monopoly flavored argument with me.
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I agree that itâs not illegal.
I think people are just unaware that their searches on sites that sell things are manipulated in this way because if you are searching for âbordeauxâ and you get bordeaux shown in response, itâs not obvious that the search is working but still being adjusted for the sellerâs benefit.
But, in this case, itâs pretty obvious that they have deliberately done something, because her name is so unusual and should be a direct hit. You would then expect there to be âpeople who bought this book also boughtâŚâ and there would be the other options that A9 could return whatever they wanted. But you canât even find what you are looking for.
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It does seem pretty blatant to fail to even land her name on the first page(especially given that, if memory serves, users frequently zone out at about the point where they have to scroll, so they seem to be veering in the direction of burying her hard enough to actively annoy people looking for her). Iâm not surprised that they are pushing their own self-published stuff; but that seems dangerously close to the point where you start annoying potential customers.
Honestly, with Amazon, I wouldnât even be confident that Iâm getting the same search engine manipulations that you, or any other person, is. Theyâd be exactly the company that would be attempting to modify both âstore layoutâ and item price per viewer, per platform(if people impulse buy more digital downloads when on tablets; but more hardbacks when on desktops, theyâd know) as aggressively as possible.
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I love how you monetize my profit centers. Do it again, slower. Like Microsoft.
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As stated, an actual plot, vocabulary choices, but not much else. One of the girls I knew in the dorms read us a passage from one and we were all like wait that is basically a better written version of letters to and yet that gets sold on the regular store shelves for whatever reasons.
didnât the whole fifty shades of grey start off as a fan fiction community organized around the pretense that Stephanie Meyer didnât actually understand female anatomy/sexuality?
The link escapes me atm, though.
When I do a search for âJaid Blackâ on Amazon.com, the second search result is Amazonâs Jaid Black Page. Sure, it takes till the 4th search result to get one of her actual books, but her author page is technically all of her books.
Although, now that Iâve searched for her, my Amazon recommendations are going to be pretty wacky for a little while.
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And look how well that turned out! >.<
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