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		miohtama on Sept 18, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Update on KDP Title Creation Limits Garbage books are used for money laundering. You buy books using stolen credit cards and such. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/apr/27/fake-books-sol...

hinkley on Sept 18, 2023 [–]

I wonder if that means the Feds made a phone call to Jeff on his private line and said we need to have a little chat.

We can track money laundering when there are X fake books. We can't when there are 10X fake books.

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