“The 40% discount doesn’t mean anything — it’s a marketing gimmick that all publishers use. The ranking, otoh, does indeed mean the book is not doing that well.”
True, it’s the ranking that matters, although a mark-down of 40% is more than usual. Barnes & Noble marks-down a lot of hard-cover new releases 10-20%.
Bobbewig
VINE VOICE
1.0 out of 5 starsDon’t Waste Your Time And Money!
June 11, 2019
Format: Hardcover
To be honest, Jim Acosta has never been one of my favorite journalists, but I always considered him to be a credible journalist...that is, until I read an Advanced Reader Copy (ARC) of this book. Having finished it, I had to force myself to do so. That’s because Acosta makes virtually no attempt to create a fair and balanced portrayal of what being a journalist is like covering the President and his administration, for which he makes quite clear he has nothing but total disdain.
As such, despite my effort to have an open mind to what he claims to be “a dangerous time to tell the truth in America,” Acosta’s book reads like a total “hatchet job” whose sole intent is to “get Trump” in any way he can. And as a result, I can no longer consider Acosta to be a credible journalist. Rather, I now perceive Acosta to be so biased, one-sided and revenge-ridden in this book that, for me, I cannot consider him capable of even remotely telling the truth in America when it comes to this Administration.
While I had previously thought the term “Fake News” was a bit unfair and Trump’s “calling out” Acosta as one of the leading reporters of Fake News to be exaggerated, this book, which reads like it was written by a petulant child out to “get back” at a parent, has made me completely sorry that I read it — even after getting it for free.