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Thank you. The article is treating the NYT bestseller list as sacrosanct. Someone figured a (relatively) cheap way to hack it. Good for them.

As someone who just published a children's book if I thought this would work I would try it.




It's a scam regardless of how cheap it was. It sounds like you're trying justify the fact you'd be willing to do the same scam.


Years ago I became aware of how many wealthy people and "best-selling authors" bought their way onto the NY Times list and how even people with publishing deals are often "encouraged" to use their advances to use companies like ResultsSource.

Since the entire thing seems to be a scam to me I like this one because of it's elegance. Why bother even selling the books or paying Results Source when you can just put it in a few hundred orders for 30 books across various independent stores.




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