Im not questioning the fact that the publisher told him the book was ok. you see sometimes when people write books they want their books to sound uneducated, full of mistakes, in the book world thats called setting the mood. well publiishers when they see a book full of mistakes they of course are going to tell the writer yes the book looks ok to me. they are reading it from the point of view of maybe the author wanted it to sound this way. they are hired to say this is horrible and lose out on that customer.

my suggestion is if this boss of yours feels he has been over charged and did not get what he paid for then he can take legal action by petitioning which ever court in your location that takes care of this kind of thing. your boss can either hire a lawyer or represent himself in the court case. your boss can also go to this company and say hey why did you tell me that this book was ok when I am not satisfied with it,,,,

the bottom line is I know that you feel for your boss, and you feel like he has been taken advantage of but only your boss can say whether the book is not up to his own satisfaction and whether your boss feels he was taken advantage and your boss is the one that must decide what to do if he wants to do anything...

I went back and reread the started post in this thread. from the sounds of it your boss is happy with how the book turned out and is so happy about the outcome that he proudly showed the book off to his employees .

taking a guess here that you may be upset about the outcome of .......the boss's ........ business adventure because its not the way you would have wanted it to be if you had written a book and got it published. which is ok and normal. I too have friends that have business adventures that dont turn out the way.......I ..... would want them end with, but in reality all that matters is whether my friends are happy about their business adventure, and from the sounds of your beginning the thread post your boss was happy and proudly showed off his book.