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Originally Posted by BearMountainBooks
One thing that DID change for me over the last year for certain: When you do a search on my name, WITHOUT my middle initial, which is how most people search, my author page/link no longer comes up on Amazon--someone else's page shows up. My books show up, but not my author link. Maria Schneider the jazz artist also gets much more prominent displaying than she used to (she's quite famous). She always showed up in the search, but now she is the ONLY Maria Schneider to show up UNLESS a person specifies books.
A year ago, a simple search yielded at least one of my books, the jazz stuff and a few other authors. Now it's rearranged and not to my benefit. This is what I mean when I say I am not sure KU can be blamed for all the loss of income. I have read that Amazon is much more interested in paid placement than in the past and the searches have definitely changed.
I regard it all as business decisions. They are never static. They will try new things and different searches. That's just the way it is.
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You say that you know this for certain, but I just did a search on "maria schneider" and once I scrolled past the music CDs on the first page of results, I started seeing your books. I'm not sure why you would think that the order of the search results changing has anything to do with Kindle Unlimited, or why you would think that this is anything other than, maybe, people buying more jazz music than books. It's unfortunate that you happen to share a name with a popular musician, but it's certainly not Amazon's fault in any way. Of course the first results in a general search are going to be the bestsellers. How else should they do the sort?
Shari