Why the terrible top ranked books at Amazon?
Periodically I search Amazon for new programming related books I may have missed. Lately, I've noticed that books on programming when sorted by relevance have a few terrible choices right near the top. The titles of these texts aren't even grammatical (adjectives used as nouns) and the preview content reveals totally rambling confused ideas about the purported subject. These books have lots of 4 and 5 star reviews buy verified purchasers. How can this be? I've read hundreds of programming books and I can say that these apparently self published books are a total waste of money. This must be happening all over Amazon, very sad.