Tag Archives: Bestseller

Bestsellers—Gaming the System

After the dodgy dealings revealed in the Social Media & Book Deals post, I came across a dissection of how easily Amazon’s bestseller status can be achieved:

https://www.quora.com/Do-you-promote-yourself-as-a-best-selling-author-if-you-hit-number-1-in-one-of-Amazons-niche-categories

(Click on more to read the whole article)

Such duplicity is further proof that no one knows what the truth is these days. The meaning of words is altered so drastically, that sometimes they mean the opposite of their real definition.

Fake News as a phenomenon is depressing.

I agree with Abraham Lincoln!

A rabbit that sends your child to sleep

A book called The Rabbit Who Wants To Fall Asleep, written by a Swedish behavioural psychologist and linguist Carl-Johan Forssén Ehrlin, is currently outselling Harper Lee’s Go Set A Watchman and Paula Hawkins The Girl on The Train.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/11803484/Bedtime-phenomenon-scientist-develops-book-to-send-children-to-sleep-in-minutes.html

It’s sending children to sleep all over the world. Useful to know, should you have a troublesome toddler.

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