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Originally Posted by fjtorres
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.
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Oh, I am sure they manipulate the he bought/she boughts--it's a matter of whether they take paid placement. I would imagine their own published books get preferential treatment. It only makes sense. It's a matter of HOW MUCH and how obvious it is. If I owned a company and sold my books and someone elses, I wouldn't want to be obvious about it, but I'd certainly want to push my own books when possible or when there was a "matching" opportunity. I'm sure Amazon does it. Why wouldn't they? Perhaps that is why no one talks about it. It's just understood they are doing it? And complaining isn't likely to gain a thing. They own the platform. They own the marketing. No one ever claimed it was fair. And it says "he bought/she bought" not MOST OFTEN or any other such claim.