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Old 07-27-2012, 07:17 AM   #5
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Originally Posted by mr ploppy View Post
I'm guessing that is old advice because that's not the case any more. Amazon changed the way they measure free downloads, they only count as a small fraction of a sale now. So giving away thousands of free copies won't get you onto the bestseller lists like it used to. It won't get you many reviews either because less than 1% of the people who download it will ever get around to reading it.
But I thought it were the price changes that gamed the system. Initially 2.99, then a while for free and then back to 2.99 -- if I understood correctly the 'sales' of the free copy were counted as full sales.

Of course, I would expect Amazon programmers also to be smart enough to detect the gaming and fix their system
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