amazon apologizes

Over the weekend online bookseller Amazon.com removed sales rankings from books with gay and lesbian themes, making it fantastically difficult to find and buy them on the company's website. After calling the apparent discrimination/borderline censorship a "glitch", today Amazon apologized. Here's the Guardian's story on the apology, and yesterday's Guardian article on the error that neccesitated it.

And if anyone feels like buying a book/magazine/graphic novel from a local store, it's a lovely sunny day out there so no time like the present.