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Originally Posted by Pajamaman
I noticed this in Samhain's shutdown letter:
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?
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The ranking rules change frequently and are highly proprietary/secret. They don't want people to game the system (for a time, an author could buy her own books and gift them and this would improve rankings hugely). There have been other games such as buying books at midnight when other books had slow sales, etc (this was during print times. Not so much ebooks).
Right now Amazon is favoring the big 5 or 6. I'm sure they are being paid handsomely for it.