It would have been disastrous for a publisher to be left with large stocks of these books since paper supplies quickly returned to normal after the war, and the poorly produced books became unsalable.
Chiki Sarkar, the editor in chief of Random House India, said that while book sales were growing very quickly, most books still sell just a couple of thousand copies, a fraction of what even poorly performing books sell in the United States.
"The Neighborhood Project" is a sprawling, poorly edited book.
Its own scanner gives it much more control over this process: poorly scanned books are commonplace and lead to more errors further down the line.
So why has a poorly written book containing this information, padded with much tedious detail, become an overnight sensation, a runaway best-seller, and the topic of every other political column, podcast, and dinner conversation?
This latest film took £959,000, and while it is some achievement to bring back audiences after the poorly received Book of Shadows, there seemed to be plenty of excitement about a successful creative revival of Blair Witch.
("It was considered too scary for foreign audiences, while just hitting the politically-correct spot in Sweden," reckons my neighbourhood Swede).One can't help but speculate how poorly a book called "Men who hate women" would've done at American airports.
Only a footnote reveals that that "historian" is really Mr. Morris himself, writing in another poorly documented book, "Partners in Power" (1996), which alleged that Bill Clinton used to attend cocaine parties and had shadowy links to a drug smuggling operation run out of Mena, Ark.
In ninth grade I got up the nerve to buy an illustrated but poorly written book.
A book's overall star rating is one of the most prominent pieces of information on an Amazon page and many readers – quite reasonably – equate a low average rating with a poorly written book.
