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[-] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 week ago

They have bought 1000s of copies of their own books to put them on the NYT bestseller list. This is a legitimate question that I would like to know the answer to as well.

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

those are more just forms of money laundering

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It's both money laundering AND a way to guarantee that the crappy books of their ideological allies all appear wildly successful no matter how few people ACTUALLY read them.

That's how Ben Shapiro is technically a bestselling author in spite of having been incapable of speaking for a minute without spouting a logical fallacy since he was a teenager.

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