On Sunday the NYT ran a story based on “drafts of a manuscript” by former National Security Advisor John Bolton. Within hours of that story going live, Amazon posted a pre-order listing for the book — which had not been officially announced or even confirmed by any of the parties — offering the 528-page THE ROOM WHERE IT HAPPENED, scheduled for March 17 publication. They showed the cover and a brief description from publisher Simon & Schuster, so clearly their listing was based on official metadata, but the publisher declined to answer our questions about how that data was approved […]
