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How authors buy their way onto bestseller lists

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That prestigious bestselling author badge is frequently bought, not earned. Wealthy authors and politicians routinely hire specialized firms to buy thousands of their own books in single weeks just to artificially trigger the mathematical thresholds of major lists.

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