The Amazon Best Seller Rank has been unreliable and Amazon Ads seems to be suffering similar issues. The Kindlepreneur Dave Chesson shared recently how Amazon Ads do more than sell books for you; it trains the Amazon algorithms. And, The Alliance of Independent Authors warns you about pirated books on Soundcloud. All that and more in the self-publishing news this week!

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• Anyone else seeing Amazon Sales Ranking glitching at the moment? - https://www.kdpcommunity.com/s/question/0D58V00009Ebj3zSAB/anyone-else-seeing-amazon-sales-ranking-glitching-at-the-moment?language=en_US&topicId=0TO2T000000kSswWAE&count=10
• Woke up this AM to zero impressions - https://www.reddit.com/r/KDP/comments/1efhcgx/woke_up_this_am_to_zero_impressions/ 
• Sell More Books With Amazon Ads 2.0 - https://davechesson.podia.com/amazon-advertisements-for-books-course
• Book Brush survey - https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfZTo8gdTDmBi8UTXj5Lrn0WasJaHPSLjpmd5CHVTU-r8LQiw/viewform
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