The publisher might recoup some of his costs via composting the left-overs. (Not likely to even sell the copies in the remainder bins. I wouldn't spend even a quarter for this liar's tale of his plantation days at the NYT.)
Agreed. I don't supplant one's income by buying their idiotic book of lies, when all they've got is an axe to grind, no matter how compelling the book reviewers make the books out to be.
"You'll read it from cover to cover!" and all that malarkey. Pfft.