What Fiction are you reading this week, August 4, 2019?

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4. That's a shame.

Looks like a lot of people agree with you, too. (glancing at reviews)

Preston has written an interesting article about author doppelganging, which

occurs when someone starts publishing books just like yours, using your name, in order to game Amazon’s search algorithms. I write a series of thrillers with a partner named Lincoln Child, and our nom de plume is “Preston & Child.” Half a dozen years ago, an entity named “Preston Child” started publishing thrillers amazingly like ours, with similar covers and titles.

For years, Amazon’s algorithms mingled the books of “Preston Child” along with our books, as if they were by the same author. Our publisher investigated and was unable to confirm the existence of Preston Child. (It’s next to impossible to prove someone doesn’t exist.) It took Amazon several years before it adjusted its algorithms to distinguish “Preston Child” from “Preston & Child.”

https://azdailysun.com/opinion/online-book-selling-scams-steal-a-living-from-writers/article_b2a7795f-89ff-56ed-939f-3622f9fcdbcc.html

Doesn't seem to be the case here, though. Still, made me wonder.