DON'T JUDGE A COVER BY ITS BOOK.

One of the most corrupt businesses in America is the publishing industry. Sadly they lie with impunity, promoting thousands of books supposedly written by politicians or celebrities that had nothing or very little to do with the content. My deceased brother, a noted published author, told me that one of his close friends wrote the Margaret Truman mysteries, books that millions bought believing Ms. Truman herself wrote them. Very few celebrities can write a paragraph, much less a book yet they have many best sellers in their names. The most offensive fraud, to me, is James Patterson. Perhaps he was once an actual author but today he does nothing but slap his name on the writings of lesser-known authors who are willing to give him undeserved writing credit to appeal to all the gullible book buyers who haven't a clue. Yes, the publishing industry is corrupt, but no one seems to care. I wonder if someday a book will come out exposing the deception of this devious industry, and, if it does, who will print it?