#67 Amazon Book Reviewer Issues A … Press Release?

November 21, 2005 by wfzimmerman | No comments

The wacky world of press releases never fails to provide bizarre “meta” stories. This is the first time I’ve ever seen an Amazon.com book reviewer issue his own press release.


WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 /PRNewswire/ — Robert David Steele Vivas, CEO of OSS.Net, a global open source intelligence (OSINT) provider, is also the #1 Amazon reviewer of non-fiction books, generally about national security, global issues, and intelligence. Today Steele has posted a list of 25 books helpful to citizens who might wish to evaluate whether Vice President Dick Cheney is guilty of dereliction of duty and high crimes and misdemeanors such as might merit impeachment if he does not voluntarily resign from office.

The list, easily viewable at Amazon by clicking on http://tinyurl.com/bl23w, is the top list of sixteen lists on national security and global issues.

What’s more, Mr. Vivas has quite the cottage industry of lists at Amazon.com. But Amazon.com doesn’t let you make money from writing lists, do they?

Finally, as a fact-checking journalist, not just one of the parasitic bloggers that the MSM complains about (see today’s New York Times for the latest whinge from David Carr), I must report that Mr. Vivas is not currently the #1 reviewer on Amazon.com, but a lowly #67.

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