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knowledge of antecedents. Most significantly, their vaunted market reach is yet to be personally determined as, over the course of approximately one year, the indie books reviewed have experienced sales ranging from two to seven, and I suspect this is inclusive of the freebies and other forms of giveaways. Help, please advise;

1) Does Kirkus use the same reviewers for the indie stuff as they do for the institutionalized?

2) Is there any mathematically demonstrable relationship between a starred Kirkus review and book sales?

3) Is GFR of financial value to anyone other than AmawayOnSteroids.com; the mis-statements a Nabokovian non-riddle?

4) What is the price an unknown indie must pay to get a front page Sunday NY Times Book Review Section review?

5) Does that have any provable financial value?

6) Is there any less-than-half-hour process an indie can perform to keep their books off pirate websites?

7) If one signs with a traditional publisher is one saddled with an editor, required to do book signings, and answer stupid questions in the media?