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Originally Posted by fjtorres
There are several reliable reports that suggest participation in KU results in more sales rather than less. (One coming from noted Amazon bad-mouther, Mark Coker, of Smashwords. Which kinda surprised me.)
The way it works is that full reads in KU are treated as paid (discounted) reads so they count towards sales ranking and higher rankings boost visibility in the sales lists as well as in the alsobot algorithms. Both of which sales.
So, rather than substitute for sales, KU is a net booster and raising prices dramatically would probably be counterproductive.
Milleage varies by author and by book, though.
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I've seen various authors speculating on this and recent discussions (Sept) seem to suggest that some authors think the algos changed sometime in Aug. But in BOTH cases, it is speculation as to how the algos were working and are working now. I think last year? there was speculation that higher prices were helping rankings more. So, for example, if I sold a book at 3.99 versus 2.99 I'd get a higher ranking on the more expensive book. If that was true, it has likely changed again.
I can state that rankings do change when pages are read. It appears to count much as a purchase at some point. Now as to WHEN that ranking changes (how many pages read) I have no idea. I don't pay that close attention and I have no way of knowing if one person is reading really fast or six people are reading with one person reading really fast and the others slowly and so on.