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im my opinion this blog post is kind of a very clever marketing FOR the book


Note that the link to the book contains the blog owner's Amazon affiliate referral code, so even if you disagree and click through to Amazon and buy something, he gets a cut. I'd love to see the economic benefit of this post to the author (along with the number of orders of the book the post actually induced).

This is not a moral judgment of linking to products you disavow, just intellectual curiosity about the results of such a counterintuitive marketing approach compared to affirmative recommendations of other popular books.


Ha, I can assure you that it's definitely not intended to be, even if that ends up becoming the case!




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