Rub my nose in it...
Please.
Understand the scale of what it takes to get into the 30s. Not much. A few hundred sales a day.
http://www.rampant-books.com/mgt_amazon_sales_rank.htm
http://www.fonerbooks.com/surfing.htm
Given what apparently cheap publicity and moral building influence the selling of a few hundred ideological texts per day it doesn't take a "Dark Soros" (to borrow some of your side's fiction) behind the scenes manipulating sales rankings.
