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Behind the Scam: What Does It Take to Be a 'Best-Selling Author'? $3 and 5 Minutes.
I would like to tell you about the biggest lie in book publishing. It appears in the biographies and social media profiles of almost every working “author” today. It’s the word “best seller.” This isn’t about how The New York Times list is biased (though it is). This isn’t about how authors buy their way onto various national best-seller lists by buying their own books in bulk (though they do). No, this is about the far more insidious title of “Amazon Bestseller”...
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I honestly don't know what I'm more upset about: That Amazon pulls this garbage, or that a picture of his foot sold more copies than my last book on Macroeconomics.