Peg Kerr's Journal

Minicon was fun, and it was definitely the right decision to go. I was mostly away from the computer over the weekend, which means I'm just finding out about Amazon Fail (#amazonfail) now. For more info, read here, here, here, and a gazillion other places . . .

At least I signed the petition.(Is it weird that I'm almost sorta disappointed that The Wild Swans hasn't been delisted so I can enjoy the outrage personally?)

And yet, while the righteous outrage feels so good, here and here are two alternate explanations for why Amazon might have failed so massively that might give people pause. I'll keep an eye out on this story, but I'll put down the pitchfork and torch for now and wait to see what happens.

ETA: An LJ user claims he is responsible for all this by writing a script that gamed the system. He notes that tehdely -- that's one of "two explanations" links above -- was the only one to figure it out. Sounds very smug about it, too.

ETA again but the claim may be debunked here.

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