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von sunfunlili (DE/GB), 2020-10-07, 17:34   Spam?  

ausgenommen / abgesehen von .... ??

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von Proteus-, 2020-10-07, 17:47   Spam?  62.116.60....

How would you translate abstract out ?

 To abstract out would then mean to pull something out of . . . (out of something).
Really — to be 'technical', the word "out" is unnecessary. It really repeats the idea of 'abs-'
 It is used in several ways. Its meaning depends on the context.
 When you 'abstract out' an essay or article, you 'pull out' the important concepts and ideas and list those — without all the blurb, examples, opinions etc. Just the main points without specifics.
Then you can write the essay using those points as the subjects for the paragraphs or sections.
 When you 'abstract out' data from a mass of data, you 'pull out' the overall main points.
— From the temperature readings for ten places within this building, every two hours for the last month (four hundred separate figures), I can abstract the major datum "The temperature never drops below twelve degrees, so we don't need to worry about the pipes freezing."
 In my mind, 'abstracting' would be the action of 'pulling out' the central, general problem from lots of specific problems.                            https://forum.thefreedictionary.com/postst179089_abstract-out.aspx

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von Windfall (GB), 2020-10-08, 11:29   Spam?  

The English sounds badly written and thought through if that's actually what's meant. Surely if the person whose name is on the books is a fake writer, the person who does the actual writing is a ghost writer. Is it definitely the ghost writer who has died and not the person whose name is on the books?
That aside, I suspect what they mean by "abstracted out" is "multiplied".

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von newcallas (DE), 2020-10-09, 14:11   Spam?  

4;Windfall: It's definitely the writer who has died. And he's not the ghost writer, he uses/used the other person as a kind of stand-in, because his name ist connected with highly intellectual (but unprofitable) literature and nobody is to know that he churns out a series of extremely marketable kitsch novels to earn some - in fact lots of - money.
I think 'multiplied' is indeed what the author meant. Thanks!