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I like this one better than people shelling out $200k to make the list because they exploited a bug in the system -- this didn't cost anything outside the manpo
by ada1981 9y ago
I like this one better than people shelling out $200k to make the list because they exploited a bug in the system -- this didn't cost anything outside the manpower to place these orders which will never go through or be charged.
- arthurjj 9y agoThank 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.
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- PhasmaFelis 9y agoIt'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.
- ada1981 9y agoYears 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.