Reading this most made me immediately think that there's more than just misalignment of the writer and the reader: there's also the incentive of the publisher,

Reading this most made me immediately think that there's more than just misalignment of the writer and the reader: there's also the incentive of the publisher, which might be misaligned with either, or both, or simply utterly puzzling and confusing. Anecdata: as glad as I am for Apress for working with me and releasing my own book about a part of Common Lisp (which is, technically, non-fiction!), I still cannot fathom their re-release of "Interpreting LISP" [1] - a book that I hated to give a zero-star rating on Reddit [2] but that I can only warn people about, if I am to be acting in good faith. [1] https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4842-2707-7 https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4842-2707-7 [2] https://www.reddit.com/r/lisp/comments/6qc61v/second_edition_published_interpreting_lisp/dkw66fl/ https://www.reddit.com/r/lisp/comments/6qc61v/second_edition...