Amazon's business model has always been to push the work of out to someone else. The ebook database is maintained by whomever publishes the book, not someone from Amazon. That's how they save money. People have been scamming the various lists and rankings for years. I've complained about it here since it makes the trying to browse by release date an exercise in frustration.
They can't fix it without breaking their business model. It's pretty unlikely that they will make any attempt to do so until it starts to hurt their bottom line.
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