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The figures are all over the place for Hubbard. Werthead Send a noteboard - 30/08/2013 09:49:29 AM

At different times his publishers - a branch of Scientology - have claimed figures from the low hundreds of thousands to many millions for his books. There is also heavily-reported block-buying of his books on the church's orders. Due to the unreliablity, he's not going on there.

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