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March 26, 2013

Last Harvest

I am part of Amazon's Vine Program where they send me up to four items each month for review. Publishers and manufacturers actually pay Amazon to have their books and products included in this program in order to garner more (hopefully positive) Amazon review. About a year ago Amazon has introduced a special feature within this program called "Last Harvest" in which they dump all the surplus books and products that no one chose to review. Members of the Vine program can choose an unlimited number of books from the last harvest, and yet there are a few that have remained there for months and months without any indication that anyone really wants them. Among these are Alan Colmes' "Thank Liberals for Saving America," and such great titles as "Islamic Finance" and "Sexy Feminism." In other words, no one is buying that stuff. Even when it's given out for free.