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Someday, Amazon will have an API for this

Matt Haughey

on Aug 18, 2004

A guy (from metafilter which he thanks in the book! woot!) writes an amusing blog post, which gets picked up by an agent, which then becomes a book along with a fake promotional news story to get it up on the charts.

Blogs becoming books becoming news becoming fake news becoming hit books! What a crazy world we live in.

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