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Confessions from the Scammy, Underground World of Kindle EBooks
- andrewvc 11y agoInteresting story, but even she admits she only made a handful of sales. While she may be #1 in a super-niche category that doesn't actually seem to be worth much, so I have to wonder if that's part of why she wasn't caught by amazon.
- Lazare 11y agoSeemed like it was going to be interesting, but as you read it turns out that the point was that if you post a decently written free ebook in an extremely niche section of Amazon, and then get all your friends to download and rate it, you can hit #1 in that extremely niche section before anyone catches it. Which isn't really surprising. Or that interesting. I dunno, maybe it's just a let down because from the intro I thought the article was going to be about someone scamming their way into selling enough ebooks to #1 in the main romance category, which would be amazingly impressive. Giving away enough ebooks to be #1 in "African-American Historical Romance" isn't quite the same. :)