Amazon Stinks

There's nothing like waking up from a nap to discover the erotic romance genre has been kicked in the groin.

By none other than Amazon.

Erotic romance authors are having their sales ranks stripped of their sales and kicking said books from their search listing. As one who has two books listed (one I had to pay for for crying out loud) this both alarms me and pisses me off. My sales listings haven't been stripped yet.

Yet.

But I have no doubt it will happen.

God damn it.

I can't say the same for other writers I heart and spend money on.

Other are blogging about this way more effectively than I. Smart Bitches have coined the voluptuous phrase Amazon Rank and Maya Reynolds is always up on the industry.

Apparently this is also hitting the classics (Lady Chatterley's Lover) and authors such as Ellen Degeneres.

What a crock.

Update: According to Maya Reynold's latest post, the little people with the credit card are being heard.