Comment by floxy

The original poster wasn't very tactful. But let's see if we can turn some lemons into lemonade. I do think there are a plethora of popular / best-selling "business" genre books that do have the vibe that the OP was hinting at. Reading the book description for "Incorruptible" at Amazon doesn't make me think that this book stands out from that crowd. How could the blurb be rewritten to emphasize that this book is truly different? Just including the sentence "This isn't another book of relavent-sounding platitudes" might help. Are there any falsifiable core principles in the book? If so, could you list those in the blurb? The blurb itself sounds kind of AI-ish:

"Incorruptible argues that this failure is not primarily ethical. It is structural."

...and with at least five em-dashes. Let's assume its not AI, but even then the blurb is very business-esque generic:

"Drawing on two decades"

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22drawing+on+two+decades%22

"a clear-eyed diagnosis and a practical blueprint for change"

...all sounds cliche. Your comments here on HN make it much more likely for me to read the book than the blurb ever would. But I'm not a best-selling author and maybe this is the sort of blurb that sells books to certain readers? Maybe authors don't have much of a say in how the blurb is worded?