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- From: jfurr@polaris.async.vt.edu (J. Furr)
- Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
- Subject: Re: scientology
- Message-ID: <C04FL9.MK8@polaris.async.vt.edu>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 11:22:20 GMT
- References: <1992Dec31.002139.21201@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
- Organization: Virginia Center for Lemur Fandom (subscribe to alt.fan.lemurs TODAY)
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- In article <1992Dec31.002139.21201@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai) writes:
- >in article <725431189.27397@zooid.guild.org> Newsgroup: misc.books.technical,
- >ron@zooid.guild.org (Secret Mud) writes:
- >>phoffman@orac.holonet.net (Paul E. Hoffman) writes:
- >>>jmacphai@cue.bc.ca (James MacPhail) writes:
- >>>
- >>>>The best-seller part is no mystery. They just go out and buy their own book
- >>>>in sufficient quantity to hit the volume mark. (Then re-sell them, I guess?)
- >>>
- >>>That's plain ridiculous. No publisher does that. The word "best-seller"
- >>>has no real meaning, so anyone can call any book that.
- >>>
- >>No honest publisher does it, but I have read magazine articles which state
- >>that the Church of Scientology did exactly that to put L. Ron Hubbard's books
- >>on best seller lists. (Sound reasonable to me--I've read some of that tripe.)
- > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >
- >Has the markings of a UL, might even qualify for a motto. Any
- >evidence that Scientology would do something like this?
- >
-
- Yes. Time Magazine's cover story on Scientology this year included a
- paragraph or two about "Dianetics" reaching bestseller status this way.
- They quoted bookstore employees as saying that "Dianetics" often arrived
- from the publisher with pricetags from other bookstores still attached...
- meaning, they were bought and immediately sent out to stores to be resold.
-
- Joel "I get ALL my facts from Time" Furr
- jfurr@polaris.async.vt.edu
-