SBPRA has just issued a press release touting its "best selling" books of 2013.
Let's take a look, shall we? (To spare too much embarrassment to the authors, who are victims in this scheme, I'll link to their books but won't write out their names or titles.)
SBPRA's "number one selling book in 2013" was
this book. It's available in paperback only, and as of this writing has an Amazon sales ranking of 1,408,946.
First runner up for beaucoup sales:
this book. Amazon ranking: 728,667 for print, 992,252 for Kindle. This is especially sad, given the book's subject. To add insult to injury, the buy button on the author's shitty SBPRA-created "author website" (which she paid for) links to someone else's book.
Second runner up:
this book. It's available on Kindle only, and has a sales ranking of 1,159,032.
In fourth place:
this book, available in hardcover only, with a sales ranking of 2,650,837. This author's shitty SBPRA-created website has a buy button that links to Paypal.
There's more, but you get the picture.
If these books were SBPRA's top sellers for the year, either a bestseller for SBPRA sells around one copy annually, or these "most-purchased" books were purchased only by their authors. Or, maybe, SBPRA just picked these books out of a hat.
- Victoria