This is true. She might be coming out with another book "How To Be Fantastically Stupid and Make Money" and this is just to generate a viral buzz. People who attend Donald Trump seminars will probably buy it.
Pt Barnum once said "no publicity is bad publicity." She is dancing in the dragon's jaws and to do that you are either taking a calculated risk or you are just foolhardy. There can be a very fine line between the two. I believe what she is doing is plagiarism and that is wrong. But look at the discussion it's generated here alone.
Unfortunately, the Barnum theory is wrong under some circumstances, and the first of which is when you've got a smarter than average audience. Yeah, she might get some "hey look at the freak" noteriety, but within publishing I suspect she'll be known as someone too stupid to be trusted, and among fans as a bad Mary Sue author who tried something so dumb that everyone else just gaped.
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