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Originally Posted by Fbone
It's near the end of the month so people may have already grabbed their free title.
Or Amazon is being selective in choosing their best sellers perhaps by excluding the free giveaways.
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They're not supposed to be gaming the list.
The whole idea is to offer a straight report of paid sales for the week.
If they are living up to that there is little reason to expect KDP titles to dominate because readers open to Indie reads tend to spread their spending around instead of clustering on new releases.
Also, if by "free title" you're referring to the Kindle First titles, those aren't KDP books but rather APub offerings. Traditionally published books from the Amazon subsidiary. Different kettle.
The may 14 mix was hardly dominated by KDP. Or even Amazon:
20 Most sold
Big Pub 10, Amazon 6, Small Pub 2, Indie 2.
Even on the most read side, if you count Rowling as Indie, you only get:
20 most read:
Big Pub 11, Amazon 4, Small Pub 0, Indie 5.
If the list skews even slightly towards anything it is towards backlist, which is probably going to really annoy the BPHs because they prefer to promote fresh releases during the launch window and forget about them afterwards. Spotlighting a two year old biography doesn't serve their interests regardless of who published it.