Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Here is a note I sent to the editor after buying the tradepaperback version. Your editorial staff has done something so dumb I am astounded! (Also really $%^& mad.) The hardcover and trade paperback versions of CK Prahalad - The fortune at the bottom of the pyramid, are NOT the same. I assigned readings from this book to my class of 100 students. They went and bought the book and found that the case studies aren't there. On closer investigation I see that you shortened the case studies and renamed the chapters. Unfortunately the editing on the shortening is terrible and I simply can't ask my students to read such badly written material. You did several things wrong 1) You sell two books with identical titles and covers, which have different content 2) You edited very very badly 3) You did this on an award winning book with high visibility As far as I can tell there is no way for anyone to figure out that the content is different except in the very rare case that they own both versions. This is a black mark on the Wharton name. What were you thinking? -james