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Oh this is a common way to get on the NY Times Bestsellers List. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times_Best_Seller...

I think it's pretty well-known that it's an industry-standard practice.

Also another point why I treat big classes of businesses as made of greedy dishonest bastards.

See also: astroturfing, which is commonly accepted way of being a cheat on the Internet.

Instead of that pedantic "sic" you could have, you know, fixed the article.

Can you really call it a direct wrote at that point? [sic] is an accepted way to avoid integrity issues when quoting.