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Originally Posted by BearMountainBooks
It wouldn't surprise me at all to find that Amazon and B&N sell "he bought, she bought" placement and/or various "show up" based on ranking or even using the spots as ads. It wouldn't even be false advertising if the "he bought/she bought" were really true for even a single purchase/reader.
They are in the business to make money, after all.
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B&N has been reported to sell preferential placement at their web site and reader home screens to BPHs and to downgrade certain genre indie titles in the rankings.
Amazon has been lambasted publicly by several traditionalist mouthpieces for *refusing* to marginalize indie titles in favor of the BPHs.
Beyond that I haven't seen any credible reports on either vendor's placement practices, though there appears to be a lot of whining over the Amazon alsobot algorithms.
One thing I have yet to hear gripes over is Amazon First.
Odd, considering Amazon buys the books from themselves on behalf of prime subscribers and count those sales in the rankings.