Amazon.com apologises for 'embarrassing book cataloguing error'.Byline: ANI London, April 14 (ANI): Amazon.com has apologised for an error due to which the sales ranking were removed from tens of thousands of books, and it became difficult to search for tomes. Making a statement on Sunday, the online retailer said that a "glitch A temporary or random hardware malfunction. It is possible that a bug in a program may cause the hardware to appear as if it had a glitch in it and vice versa. At times it can be extremely difficult to determine whether a problem lies within the hardware or the software. See glitch attack. " had caused the problem, and promised that the numbers would be restored. However, sales numbers were still missing until Monday afternoon. Hit by the error were recent works like Chelsea Handler's My Horizontal Life, as well as classics like Gore Vidal's The City And The Pillar and James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room Giovanni's Room is a novel by James Baldwin first published in 1956. It is considered "groundbreaking" in that the novel featured gay central characters at a time when this was uncommon. . "What kind of a childish game is this? Why don't they just burn the books? They'd be better off and it's very visual on television," the Daily Express quoted Vidal as saying. Amazon spokesman Andrew Herdener called the deletions an "embarrassing and ham-fisted cataloguing error for a company that prides itself on offering complete selection." According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. him, 57,310 books in categories ranging from gay and lesbian literature Lesbian literature includes works by lesbian authors, as well as lesbian-themed works by heterosexual authors. Even works by lesbian writers that do not deal with lesbian themes are still often considered lesbian literature. to health and erotica erotica - pornography had been affected. "This problem impacted books not just in the United States but globally. It affected not just sales rank but also had the effect of removing the books from Amazon's main product search," he said. "Many books have now been fixed and we're in the process of fixing the remainder as quickly as possible, and we intend to implement new measures to make this kind of accident less likely o occur in the future," he added. (ANI) Copyright 2009 Asian News International The Asian News International (ANI) agency provides multimedia news to China and 50 bureaus in India. It covers virtually all of South Asia since its foundation and presently claims, on its official website, to be the leading South Asia-wide news agency. (ANI) - All Rights Reserved. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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