Amazon Book Category Selection Changes

Now here's a caveat. Choosing those categories doesn't mean that's the category you'll show up in because it's Amazon. But that choice does have influence. Ultimately Amazon still makes the selection, which I assume is still the case because of scammers and spammers trying to game the Amazon system by being in categories they have no business being in just to play certain games. This does stink a little because their categorization does result in some weird places placements sometimes and now Amazon customer support claims they can't override these automatic category placements. There are also a lot of folks myself included that believe your description and what you put in the seven keyword boxes will impact your categories. But we don't know exactly because we don't have the Amazon algorithm to dissect. Okay, so besides the fact that you can choose your categories where you couldn't before, it's also a big change from the past because you could request to be included in up to 10 categories.