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Oh my goodness, I'm quivering, quivering with excitement.

Did you know that you could buy only the hard copy version of Win Bigly? Because Amazon is in charge of the Kindle and the soft cover. This one comes from a third party, but you can only buy the hardcover of the new second edition. It's the second edition of Win Bigly. It's got some minor updates, similar to the first version with a few updates that you might like.

But do you know what you do when Amazon says we're not going to publish your book and we're not going to give you a reason? Nothing. So apparently Amazon can just decide that this book won't be published in two of its forms, even though one of them they're publishing now.

See if you can understand this. They've accepted the hardcover, and you can buy it right now. The soft cover and the Kindle are rejected, although they're identical. Same title, same content, everything. But one of them is accepted and the others are rejected. And there is no way to find out why or to fix it. There's no mechanism. There's no way to reach anybody. And you just get automated responses that say we rejected it if you try to follow up digitally.

Now here's the question. Is that political? Do you think it's a coincidence that one of the books that would give you the best impression of Trump, even

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though the book is about persuasion, it's not about politics per se, do you think it's a coincidence that that's not allowed to be published and that there's no explanation? Remember the hardcover is published on the same platform, so it's not the content. And if it were something technical, it would be great if they told us, but I don't know what it would be. So we have big question marks on that…

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