{"id":7810,"date":"2011-01-21T14:53:02","date_gmt":"2011-01-21T19:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=7810"},"modified":"2011-01-21T14:53:02","modified_gmt":"2011-01-21T19:53:02","slug":"amazon-sales-ranking-questioned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=7810","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Sales Ranking Questioned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Amazon Sales Rank Manipulated\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2011\/jan\/05\/amazon-ebook-manipulate-kindle-rankings\" target=\"_self\"><strong>The Guardian.co.uk<\/strong><\/a> has a post on an <strong>Amazon.com<\/strong> author who published an eBook instructing readers how to manipulate the <strong>Amazon sales ranks<\/strong>. The story goes on to say how he did it, and that Amazon responded by taking his eBook off the list of sales items. Can&#8217;t say I blame them. Whether his technique actually impacts the<strong> sales rank<\/strong> or not, the eBook giant cannot afford to have people lose faith in the system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian.co.uk has a post on an Amazon.com author who published an eBook instructing readers how to manipulate the Amazon sales ranks. The story goes on to say how he did it, and that Amazon responded by taking his eBook off the list of sales items. Can&#8217;t say I blame them. Whether his technique actually &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=7810\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7810"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7810"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7818,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7810\/revisions\/7818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}