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- From: phoffman@orac.holonet.net (Paul E. Hoffman)
- Subject: Re: The Online BookStore Announcement: The Internet Companion
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- Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 19:56:19 GMT
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- jmacphai@cue.bc.ca (James MacPhail) writes:
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- >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?)
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- That's plain ridiculous. No publisher does that. The word "best-seller"
- has no real meaning, so anyone can call any book that.
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- || Why quote someone else? ||
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