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Originally Posted by BWinmill
While the value of an excerpt is subjective, I will suggest that there are cases when calling it an excerpt a bonus is a misrepresentation. For example: if they claim to add an excerpt as a bonus, there is no misrepresentation. If they claim that there are bonus chapters, and those chapters turn out to be an excerpt, the ambiguity should be sufficient to classify it as misrepresenting promotional material as something that has greater value.
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I will happily concede that an excerpt from another book being presented as "bonus chapters" could be classified as a misrepresentation. I've also never encountered it to my knowledge.
I'll make my position simple: extra words included that are not part of the book I purchased are bonus material. As are the words on the cereal box, the milk jug, the cream cheese container, the panel-truck outside my window, and the hat the guy diagonally from me is wearing. I may or may not avail myself of every single bonus presented me, but that doesn't make it un-bonus-ey in my eyes.