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Originally Posted by Tarana
It's a marketing tool. The average reader has no idea that the Bestseller lists are gamed. They just see that it is on there and consider the book, whereas if it weren't there, they may not have heard of the book.
I know the Bestseller lists were being gamed in mid80s, so this is not a new issue. It really only became common public knowledge, I think, then the members of Church of Scientolgy went on mass buying sprees to get Hubbard's books on the Bestseller lists.
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It happened this century too. I can't remember the author, I know the person was known in the Baptist church and maybe other Protestant religions. I can't remember if the person used free or 99 cents but all the on sale books hit the big best seller list on Amazon.
So it still happens.