How to buy your way onto the bestseller list

First good reviews went on sale. Now a marketing firm is charging thousands to buy copies of books in order to artificially place them on bestseller lists. Continue reading at 'The Christian Science Monitor'

[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-02-28 00:00:00 UTC ]

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