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From: nyet@cco.caltech.edu (n liu)
Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology,alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Scientology UL - bestsellers? (was Re: recent FAQ postings)
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Date: 17 Sep 91 07:24:27 GMT
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kudwarf@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:

>Any way you look at it, Scientology is still making big bucks off of his 
>books, and making sure that they make even more money off them by buying 
>their own books to get the books onto bestseller lists.

I heard from a friend (note: NOT FOAF!) that they buy huge quantities of
their own L.R.H. books from retailers and RESELL them (through their publisher)
back to the bookstores where they come from, thus drastically increasing the
sales stats (at a small cost, no doubt absorbed by selling a few more deluxe
editions of the E-meter). Is that possible (i.e. legal)? If so, it MUST be
true...

nye "Stunningly prophetic; by far his most ambitious work yet" liu
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