Re:Sam Bankman-Fried is going to talk himself right into jail
by hef19898 on Friday October 27, 2023 @10:35AM
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I already found it odd to publish before the trial, the trial wpupd have been the perfect final chapter.
Re:Sam Bankman-Fried is going to talk himself right into jail
by InitialLastName on Friday October 27, 2023 @10:49AM
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I suspect that to his (and his publishers' minds) the collapse itself is the finale, and the trial is a marketing campaign. The more press the trial gets, the more people are going to get curious to learn about the background and judge for themselves, and just in time a book about the company/SBF by an author who is notable for his ability to explain and humanize complicated business concepts to a general audience is right there on the front shelf at Barnes and Noble.
If anything, when the trial is over they re-release with an epilogue evaluating the trial.
Re:Sam Bankman-Fried is going to talk himself right into jail
by rand846633 on Friday October 27, 2023 @10:53AM
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There were at least 2 other books in the making, all by authors interested in SBF. There was no time to wait if one wanted to be first to market.
Re:Sam Bankman-Fried is going to talk himself right into jail
by Doctor_Fegg on Friday October 27, 2023 @11:09AM
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There'll be a revised edition. I suspect Lewis was in court partly to gather first-hand impressions for the new chapters on the trial.
It seems that he likes SBF on a personal level, which I think is reasonable, but then it seems that he falls short of making strong statements about the fraud. I think people have interpreted this combination as an implicit support of SBF, where it could in fact just be that, publishing before the trial, Lewis didn't want to "call it" the wrong way and limit the relevance of his book.