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- From: ron@zooid.guild.org (Secret Mud)
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.books,misc.books.technical
- Subject: Re: The Online BookStore Announcement: The Internet Companion
- Message-ID: <725431189.27397@zooid.guild.org>
- Date: 27 Dec 92 04:39:49 GMT
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- From: phoffman@orac.holonet.net (Paul E. Hoffman)
- >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.
- >--
- >|| Why quote someone else? ||
-
- 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.)
-