I noticed this in Samhain's shutdown letter:
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“We’ve tried to renegotiate terms with Amazon in order to buy better placement within their site and perhaps regain some of the lost traction from the early days but have been met with silence. Other retail sites are trying, but the sales have never risen to the level of Amazon and are declining as well.”
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It certainly seems to allude to a non-arbitrary ranking system in the Amazon book-display system, and that Samhain feels it has suffered because of it.
I wonder if there is evidence for this. How are books ranked on Amazon?