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That seems terribly inefficient. Don't influential people have personal assistants and soforth who can sell stuff on ebay?
Upon learning from his publisher that college professors were selling complimentary textbooks for profit:
(from Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track)
Eh, when I get free books sent to me that I'm not going to read, it's usually b/c I think they're lousy. I don't want to sell them to someone else who might have read a good book instead. Straight to the trash.
Different people may dislike different books.
Most of the people who are influential for selling books are bloggers. Some of them do have virtual assistants but no physical ones that are at the location to which books get send.
If you have someone like Oprah I don't think that they will sell the books on ebay either.
Don't underrate the complexity of the accounting. I book that's thrown into the trash isn't earned for accounting purposes. If you however get free books that you sell, that's probably income for the IRS.
Probably wouldn't be the most productive use of time for their assistants; it's hard to be influential while needing the sort of money you can make reselling free book copies.
I think if it's not a productive waste of time for their assistant, they need another assistant. Assistants don't require nearly as much pay as influential people.
This is especially true since they don't need to sell the books immediately. If they never have time for that, they're clearly overworked.