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Are there such thing as fake books? (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by Jim_Rujnab256383@alien.top to c/books@metacritics.zone

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Recently I started reading books. I was browsing online looking to buy a book when I came across 2 different shops. One was selling a book (I won't name it) cheap then the other, more expensive (but still the same book). I wondered, are they the same and is the cheaper one "fake" or are there such thing as "fake" books?

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[–] Bibliovoria@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Not the kind of fake book you're asking about, but your question reminded me of I, Libertine, which started off as a prank by Jean Shepherd where he and his late-night radio audience created such demand for a nonexistent book that it made the New York Times Best Seller list. (Theodore Sturgeon was later commissioned to write the formerly fake book, so it now exists.)