SELF-PROMOTING HIS BOOK GONE WILD! Público Deposited
The E-Sylum: Volume 5, Number 11, March 10, 2002, Article 13
SELF-PROMOTING HIS BOOK GONE WILD!
Dick Johnson writes: "A Washington D.C. book author
has perhaps overstepped his bounds in promoting a new
book. He has purchased as many as 18,000 copies from
BarnesAndNoble.com then returning many of them under
their policy of full refund within 30 days.In addition to appearing on as many talk shows as he
could get on, David A. Vise, a reporter on the staff of
Washington Post, has attempted to inflate the demand for
his book, "The Bureau and the Mole: the Unmasking
of Robert Philip Hanssen." Was he attempting to push it
into bestsellerdom? He was selling these copies himself
online -- both with and without his autograph -- taking a
50-cent loss or a $5 profit. The full story is at:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51970-2002Mar6.html
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