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didn’t create the content. Offering for sale something that is available for free on
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for sale on Barnes&Noble.com and Buy.com. This book does not really exist, at least not until you send money for it. It is merely a bot-generated compilation of descriptive content published on
Knowledge. Representation by the authors as creators of this material is outright fraud, because they
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