Tracking Amazon: 'Artificial Epidemics' Hits Kindle Singles
Feb 10, 2012
Feb 10, 2012
Last week PW reported on digital short-form publisher Now and Then Reader, and this week the Kindle Singles charts has its first title from the company. “Artificial Epidemics” by Stewart Justman is a look at how medical activism caused the widespread overdiagnosis of prostate cancer and depression, and has hit #81 on the Kindle Singles chart.
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