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>From: "Alan K. Rode" <
arode@socal.rr.com>
>
>Contractually, the publisher usually has the hammer
on a book like this
>although I don't know who precisely came up with this
particular title.
Did the publisher have the hammer on the introduction? And
the choice of authors to cover?
>One would think that "specialists in the field" are
actually who they say
>and think they are. This anointment should include
not being easily misled.
True. But an author and publisher have a greater
responsibility not to deceive or deliberately mislead in a
book's title, so as to more easily separate the unwary from
their money.
>Exhaustiveness aside, what's important about a
non-fiction book is the
>quality of the content, not the title.
Shame about the content as well, since you mention it.
Jess N.
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