Guardian on 27th April reports that books of gibberish are listed on Amazon.com for thousands of dollars. “Worthless” books priced at up to thousands, of dollars and which contain only nonsensical text have been identified as possible vehicles for money laundering by an author whose name was, he says, used to send almost $24,000 to an unknown and fraudulent seller. It is relatively straightforward to publish a title that contains any text, provided that this isn’t “placeholder” or dummy text and allowing fake books to be sold on the Amazon website at a price chosen by the seller.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/apr/27/fake-books-sold-amazon-money-laundering
