> Yet somehow, Amazon’s “careful monitoring” failed to detect an author with no bio or online presence who published more than a dozen books on a host of subjects within a week.

We do not know this.

How do you think you would?

I would not be surprised to learn that this has well funded conservative bad-think tanks, like the Heritage Foundation, creating or funding who creates these fake scholarly works. The reasoning being to destroy the reputation and power of academics that have the communication skills to explain why their policies are not only shortsighted, but amoral and evil. I sense this because if there is one glaring characteristic of the conservative mindset, it is shortsightedness.