We’ve received another account from a former Scientology manager who previously told us about the development of contracts in the church after the death of Lisa McPherson. This time, they gave us another timely look into Scientology’s past. The release of Mike Rinder’s book this week reminded me of some of the insanity that surrounded trying to get L. Ron Hubbard’s books onto the New York Times Bestsellers List.
I was twinned on the KTL with one of the Bridge Publications Inc staffers, he was a mainstay at BPI for decades. He and his wife both, Don Arnow and his wife.
The early 1990s was a transition time, when the fiction works had to be stripped from BPI's bookselling lineup, and moved over to ASI first, and then Galaxy formed to do what BPI used to do, which was RE selling the LRH pulps and LRH "golden age of fiction" books Hubbard had written.
Those trade fiction booksales, were actually in the ASI LRH final traffic, and LRH was sending those orders to ASI, and ASI "complied" with them pushing Bridge to sell LRH's trade fiction.
Then the solution today, is Galaxy to sell LRH's trade fiction. And let BPI and NEPI sell just "church" books and products.
The stat pushing, that's just a long long nasty pattern, and "buy backs" went on in earlier years at ASI even. ASI would sell "LRH prints" in huge amounts, to certain big buyers, and ASI ended up buying back huge quantities of the "LRH prints" due to them never selling.
The way "buy backs" are described here, are doing "buy backs" on LRH trade fiction books.
The whole LRH trade fiction strategies that Bridge used to do, I think have been phased out now.
It's Galaxy that does LRH trade fiction booksales, correct? If the writer of this article can answer, I think that's been the final solution.
The other false stats stuff, the buying back to make the NYT bestseller, that's really gross.
Hubbard, when he was live, in the 1980s and the Mission Earth books were one by one stat pushed and nefarious shennanigans done to inflate sales of each that did get onto the NYT bestseller lists, was pushed and executed by ASI. And LRH was falsely reported to, never told of how they were stat pushing his books onto the NYT's bestseller lists.
"Pink legs" type of Simon Bolivar policy themes, of not telling the boss how you were making his books "hits" on bestseller lists.
False reporting that Hubbard didn't hear, and people were too scared to tell Hubbard of the stat pushing and false tactics to get his books on the bestseller lists.
Something that his sci fi and pulp writer colleagues would have sadly also kind of expected from Hubbard. Hubbard who to them was beyond the beyond for starting his own "religion" and then later having his minions do these false tactics to get Hubbard's old era fiction books on the bestseller lists, in modern years, is just sadly kind of how they saw Hubbard decline into that sick state Hubbard did decline into. Hubbard pushed his minions to push each other to create the false picture that Hubbard wanted to hear. He wanted "good news" and so the battered abused staff minions produced "good news" and false accomplishments to feed Hubbard's deluded wishes.
I think if the history of L. Ron Hubbard the "writer" is told more succinctly, someday, if ever, it will have to include the "captive audience" theme; and the "captive minions" theme who "falsified the captive audience false statistics" and lie to Hubbard to please deluded Hubbard who insisted his authorship fiction products were more valuable than they ever were to the 1980s and 1990s real people audiences.
If the ASI LRH traffic were in the public domain, you could see the Hubbard pressure and insistence on the Hubbard keep pushing and keep hyping, and force the sales of his old era books, to make money for the LRH accounts. ASI staff complied, by browbeating then BPI trade fiction and all those false buying schemes to get on the bestseller lists. All to please sick Hubbard's demands.
It all goes back to sick Hubbard, and how he set up his minions to do his bidding, at their peril if they didn't accomplish his delusions.
What a clusterphuck of an operation. Gaming the NYTimes system and gaming their public. Yeah, that is the $cieno way.
A lot of dismal dodgy dicey book selling.
I was twinned on the KTL with one of the Bridge Publications Inc staffers, he was a mainstay at BPI for decades. He and his wife both, Don Arnow and his wife.
The early 1990s was a transition time, when the fiction works had to be stripped from BPI's bookselling lineup, and moved over to ASI first, and then Galaxy formed to do what BPI used to do, which was RE selling the LRH pulps and LRH "golden age of fiction" books Hubbard had written.
Those trade fiction booksales, were actually in the ASI LRH final traffic, and LRH was sending those orders to ASI, and ASI "complied" with them pushing Bridge to sell LRH's trade fiction.
Then the solution today, is Galaxy to sell LRH's trade fiction. And let BPI and NEPI sell just "church" books and products.
The stat pushing, that's just a long long nasty pattern, and "buy backs" went on in earlier years at ASI even. ASI would sell "LRH prints" in huge amounts, to certain big buyers, and ASI ended up buying back huge quantities of the "LRH prints" due to them never selling.
The way "buy backs" are described here, are doing "buy backs" on LRH trade fiction books.
The whole LRH trade fiction strategies that Bridge used to do, I think have been phased out now.
It's Galaxy that does LRH trade fiction booksales, correct? If the writer of this article can answer, I think that's been the final solution.
The other false stats stuff, the buying back to make the NYT bestseller, that's really gross.
Hubbard, when he was live, in the 1980s and the Mission Earth books were one by one stat pushed and nefarious shennanigans done to inflate sales of each that did get onto the NYT bestseller lists, was pushed and executed by ASI. And LRH was falsely reported to, never told of how they were stat pushing his books onto the NYT's bestseller lists.
"Pink legs" type of Simon Bolivar policy themes, of not telling the boss how you were making his books "hits" on bestseller lists.
False reporting that Hubbard didn't hear, and people were too scared to tell Hubbard of the stat pushing and false tactics to get his books on the bestseller lists.
Something that his sci fi and pulp writer colleagues would have sadly also kind of expected from Hubbard. Hubbard who to them was beyond the beyond for starting his own "religion" and then later having his minions do these false tactics to get Hubbard's old era fiction books on the bestseller lists, in modern years, is just sadly kind of how they saw Hubbard decline into that sick state Hubbard did decline into. Hubbard pushed his minions to push each other to create the false picture that Hubbard wanted to hear. He wanted "good news" and so the battered abused staff minions produced "good news" and false accomplishments to feed Hubbard's deluded wishes.
I think if the history of L. Ron Hubbard the "writer" is told more succinctly, someday, if ever, it will have to include the "captive audience" theme; and the "captive minions" theme who "falsified the captive audience false statistics" and lie to Hubbard to please deluded Hubbard who insisted his authorship fiction products were more valuable than they ever were to the 1980s and 1990s real people audiences.
If the ASI LRH traffic were in the public domain, you could see the Hubbard pressure and insistence on the Hubbard keep pushing and keep hyping, and force the sales of his old era books, to make money for the LRH accounts. ASI staff complied, by browbeating then BPI trade fiction and all those false buying schemes to get on the bestseller lists. All to please sick Hubbard's demands.
It all goes back to sick Hubbard, and how he set up his minions to do his bidding, at their peril if they didn't accomplish his delusions.