Inside a multimillion dollar fake Kindle book scam

[Skeptic]

@Vert

I guess I give Amazon rankings less credence than you all do. (And I missed the part where he fabricated reviews. That’s fraudulent; no doubt!)

The article only implies it - but it is, to my mind, a pretty strong implication:

He went on to co-found a startup, Alteroxity, which claims to help authors publish ebooks that are already “done for you” – that includes the writing, the creation, the publishing, and even “dozens of honest positive reviews”.

I don’t think his shill buying scheme would, on its own, generate the positive reviews needed for the scheme to continue to work.