The E-Sylum:  Volume 5, Number 11, March 10, 2002, Article 13

SELF-PROMOTING HIS BOOK GONE WILD!

  Dick Johnson writes: "A Washington D.C. book author
  has perhaps overstepped his bounds in promoting a new
  book. He has purchased as many as 18,000 copies from
  BarnesAndNoble.com then returning many of them under
  their policy of full refund within 30 days.

  In addition to appearing on as many talk shows as he
  could get on, David A. Vise, a reporter on the staff of
  Washington Post, has attempted to inflate the demand for
  his book, "The Bureau and the Mole: the Unmasking
  of Robert Philip Hanssen."  Was he attempting to push it
  into bestsellerdom?   He was selling these copies himself
  online -- both with and without his autograph -- taking a
  50-cent loss or a $5 profit.  The full story is at:

  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51970-2002Mar6.html

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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