Seemed 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

Seemed 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. :)