Chris the Story Reading Ape posted this link on his website. I followed it to acflory’s site where she posted this interesting post about Amazon’s latest shenanigans.
Why is Amazon HIDING books from readers?
By acflory
I’ve been buying books from Amazon since the days when the company didn’t make a profit, and the pundits thought that Jeff Bezos was mad. That’s a long time and an awful lot of books. Yet suddenly I can’t be trusted to choose books for myself????
For those who do not yet know, Amazon has a new ‘feature’ whereby an algorithm decides which books you should see when you go to an author’s ‘Author Page’. The ‘feature’ is called Top Picks and:
‘…allows Amazon customers to see personalized recommendations from your catalog of books. Customers will see this on your Author Page and it will suggest books based on these traits:
• New releases and pre-order books matching their interest.
• Unread books from a series they started.
• The customer’s reading and purchase history.
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Dragons Rule OK. V.M.Sang (author) 
Great share. I contacted Amazon to yesterday to gripe. They weren’t particularly helpful.
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Why am I not surprised!
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Thanks for your posting about Amazon’s control over searches. Two years ago, I published my Dragon Train book without realizing it was going to compete with the “How to Train Your Dragon…” books! That was my error in not thinking more deeply about searches by potential readers of my book who might up with a long list of the Train Your Dragon books. But my book was either completely left out of a search for “Dragon Train” or at the end of long list (notice the word order is different than the competing books and it doesn’t have all the other words in the search)!
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I’m often quite amazed what Amazon comes up with. Sometimes not even books, when you are in books!
And I’ve had a similar problem. Books that are not the same title, but with maybe similar words come above the book I’ve quite clearly asked for.
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