The Harry Potter books were just released on Kindle Unlimited about a month ago. Its not surprising that they are all up in the top 20, since people are going to read them right after release. It the exact ones in the exact order are likely something to do with the average rate people read at.
It benefits Amazon to sell more head vs. tail items, easier warehouse and inventory planing. Amazon's "suggestions" and charts create a self-fulfilling optimization loop. Also factor in other variables like which publishers they have a better relationship with, etc.
Surely "most read" is based off Kindle statistics where warehouse and inventory planning don't really matter. And they're not in the "most sold" since, presumably, everyone already owns them who would consider reading them.
> And they're not in the "most sold" since, presumably, everyone already owns them who would consider reading them.
Also the Harry Potter books are part of the Prime lending library / Kindle Unlimited, so Prime members can read it for free without buying.
(Plus if I try to buy Kindle versions, I'm redirected - by Amazon! - to the 3rd party Pottermore website instead. Which, when I click on it, gives me an error at gbp.shop.pottermore.com that "The page you requested does not exist.")
What's up with Order of the Phoenix in the highest spot, though? I thought it was easily one of the worst of the series, and Goodreads ratings more or less agree with me, ranking only Chamber of Secrets lower.
#2 on that list. I always wondered the same, but could never reach a conclusion why it seemed like it was always rated above the rest of the series.
It is definitely the one that turned the series from "saving the school" to "saving the world" and the series made a sharp turn after that one. That's the best reason I could come up with.
I find that most people either rank it first in the series, or somewhere near the bottom with no real in-between. I think it's the finest book in the series, my girlfriend thinks it's the worst.
From personal experience, it seems that more people find it to be the best than the worst, but there's a lot of disagreement.