Discovered while trawling Amazon
Mar. 14th, 2009 05:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
julieandrewsI ended up on Amazon, seeing what other people thought of Survey Ship and, as I often do, ended up scanning my recommendations. There's something pleasurable about telling it you already have a book or are not interested. Though it does need a 'so far beyond not interested it's not even funny' button.
There not being anything too new in my recommendations list, I wandered off looking for other methods of browsing Amazon and chanced upon the tags. I love tags. (Imagine that in the Doctor's 'I love the little shop' voice.)
It's not a surprising fact I discovered, but it is a bit depressing. If you search for books tagged 'gay fantasy' you get some big name writers and big publishers at the top of the list, mixed in with some small press and soon enough some self-published works. When you search for 'gay science fiction', however, it goes straight to the self-published. And rather ugly covers, no offense, guys. There's fewer books in this list, with fewer people tagging them.
Come on, people, get with it! Women who like slash can like science fiction. Gay men can like science fiction. Is it not being written? Not being published? Or just not getting rabidly tagged by fans?
Oh, and unrelated note, I see Amazon thinks it can trademark 'Real Name'. And it was interesting to see that it would believe any name of mine was real if it was on a credit card. That could be fun to mess with...
There not being anything too new in my recommendations list, I wandered off looking for other methods of browsing Amazon and chanced upon the tags. I love tags. (Imagine that in the Doctor's 'I love the little shop' voice.)
It's not a surprising fact I discovered, but it is a bit depressing. If you search for books tagged 'gay fantasy' you get some big name writers and big publishers at the top of the list, mixed in with some small press and soon enough some self-published works. When you search for 'gay science fiction', however, it goes straight to the self-published. And rather ugly covers, no offense, guys. There's fewer books in this list, with fewer people tagging them.
Come on, people, get with it! Women who like slash can like science fiction. Gay men can like science fiction. Is it not being written? Not being published? Or just not getting rabidly tagged by fans?
Oh, and unrelated note, I see Amazon thinks it can trademark 'Real Name'. And it was interesting to see that it would believe any name of mine was real if it was on a credit card. That could be fun to mess with...