It's interesting that you spent all that precious venom on your pissing match about a topic that this book doesn't even get near, profitability of the examples.No. It confirms what I believe. People who are in the business of writing books, speaking at conferences, and marketing themselves rarely make enough trading to earn a living. If they did why jump through all those hoops and inconveniences.
And the book teaches nothing that one can't learn from the software documentation. It is marketed towards those who look for shortcuts in life. Rarely do those individuals get what they hope for.
Good Job Brownie! lol
So your take home message is Buyer Beware.
Shortcuts often are longcuts. Yep.
Defy human nature, do the work yourself.
Anything else?
Your respectable development experience is so very much more becoming of you than your negative pissing matches, imho, but whatever floats ya boat. She's a free country.