Random pondering: can people take quotes way out of context and use them on book covers? For example, if I wrote a review that said “Simply nothing worth reading in this book”, could the author publisher write ‘“WORTH READING” — Andrew Doran’ and slap it on the book?

@Dunk Thank you. I wonder how endemic it is?

@adoran2 @Dunk that’s absolutely crazy.

@adoran2 The Wikipedia article has examples from advertising to medicine. Although it seems to be illegal in the EU/UK.

@Dunk That’s fascinating. Thanks for sharing.