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Originally Posted by binaryhermit
I find Amazon's search function to provide... somewhat questionable results frequently. Especially when you sort by price, it'll randomly put books that cost money in the middle of the books that are free.
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A significant part of Amazon’s revenue these days involves advertisements, and books are not excluded. Sellers pay for better placement. It’s probably especially critical for self published authors trying to get discovered to experiment with price drops on the one hand and paying for better placement on the other.
As a rule I never click through on ‘promoted’ books, but that’s more of a habit from years of web surfing. There is probably no inherent reason that they would be of less interest to me than the more or less random list of books I’m scrolling through. I assume it is targeted by my past ‘interests’.
I am not a fan of free books, myself. I think Amazon has figured this out and tries to get pricing between $2-5. I pretty much ignore anything outside of that range. I’d rather author got something for a book I may not even read, much less recommend to others, and if I spend more it is with the expectation that it will get to the top of my stack of reading.