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The Guardian lays out the facts with a well-researched, detailed article on the entire situation, and explains the seeming randomness of the removal of rankings--e.g. Stephen Fry's autobiography Moab Is My Washpot, in hardcover, is still ranked, because Amazon categorizes it as "memoir". However, the paperback edition is categorized as "gay", and now has no sales ranking. These are Amazon's official categories, not customer tags.

This is the article to share with others, since you know that any U.S. newspaper or magazine website's versions are going to be random collections of quotes from other articles with no fact-checking--or just reprints of the AP "report", which sucks.