Price change and sudden drop in sales

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I ran into something odd with one of my KDP books and I’m curious if anyone has seen this.

The book had been selling steadily. Then I looked closer at the numbers and realized the ads were eating almost half of the royalties, so I slightly increased the price to create some margin.

Previously a price change was just a formality. This time Amazon made me go through the full publishing process again (including removing emojis from the description).

The book was approved and went live again — but sales stopped.

What’s confusing is that the existing reviews are still there, so it doesn’t look like a completely new listing.

Has anyone seen something like this? Does the algorithm reset after this kind of update and the book has to rebuild momentum again?

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