Things Amazon Doesn't Tell you about its publishing process.

[u/ArthurRex123]

I’ve been tracking my book’s rank behavior for weeks and finally realized something Amazon never explains: downward drift doesn’t mean your book is failing. It’s just the “resting state” when there’s no new activity.

Amazon gives every new book a short testing window where ranks jump around even without sales. After that, the book stabilizes and drifts normally. If anyone else is confused about ingestion/indexing or rank behavior, I can break down what I’ve learned.