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Do the items that the retailers buy to sell count in the "millions sold"?

Asked by Shecky_Johnson (720points) December 1st, 2009

The books that make the bestsellers list: is it because Wal-Mart bought a billion of them or do they actually keep a tally of the books sold by wal-mart? Same question for Albums.

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They have to be sold to an actual end consumer; this is gotten around by sending people to buy many copies at once to inflate the figures.

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