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Originally Posted by Russell Brooks
Thanks for replying, Harry. I'll give you an example.
When authors jumped onto the KDP Select program, they all saw huge boosts in sales after their FREE promos. A few months later, authors were seeing smaller boosts. I read that the cause was due to Amazon changing their algorithms.
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Amazon chooses which books to advertise next to other books, and chooses how to rank the books in their categories.
These choices are made by the computers running the web site, according to the algorithms programmed into the software by the Amazon web site creators/maintainers.
So if the programs/algorithms are updated, and so the choice of advertised books changes.
People won't buy books that they don't know about. If the change means that your book is no longer advertised as much on the pages of other books, fewer people will buy it.
Does this help?