Its crazy to me how little effort publishers put into the basic parts of their job sometimes. Its even funnier that raymond chen of all people is the one calling this out

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defrost 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

On the matter of book back text, The Profit by Kehlog Albran has a rear blurb that likens the style of the author to that of a man with a much larger brain.

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Bolwin 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Also is this an official Microsoft dev blog?

Probably not a good look back at publishing hq

	▲	mcherm 13 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		If you don't want to be called out for putting zero effort into the books that you publish, you probably shouldn't put zero effort into the books you publish!
	▲	windward 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		It is, and it's a famous and popular blog too. Lots of older submissions have been highly upvoted here.