Amazon and Reviews: Myth Busting

I’ve seen people talk about the number of reviews on Amazon that can somehow trigger the “amazon algorithm” to start promoting your book.

Some debunking is in order.

This is my takeaway from the below article by Cate Baum:

Amazon will promote your book whenever it thinks it has a chance to make money. If a customer previously bought one of your books, they might show him the next one – even if it doesn’t have any reviews.

The algorithm really isn’t all that secret. It’s only about making sal...