Facebook: Are Groups the New Pages?

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As you probably know by now., if you start a Facebook Page for your pen name, book or series, most of your posts will be hidden from you followers by Facebook's give-us-all-your-money algorithm.

However the algorithm is not in force for posts made to Facebook Groups. Groups can be about any topic, are easily found via search, and have many of the features of Pages plus some handy dandy administrator/moderator tools. 

Seems like a good solution? Has anyone tried it?