The sin of writing bad books?

I’m about to engage with Joe Rigney ‘s book “The sin of empathy”.  I am not intending a review so much as a detailed engagement with the book’s arguments.  However, if you do want to read a book review, I agree whole heartedly with Dani Treweek who has written here

What I wanted to do at this stage was pick up on something more generally about book writing at the moment. Too often I am picking up a heavily promoted book and finding myself left at best deeply disappointed and unsatisfied.  It’s not just about books being boring and not well written, though that is far too often the case.  Rather it’s

1. A failure to set out a proper Biblical case for a position based on sound exegesis. Rather, although we claim to be Evangelical, we keep ending up with situations where Scripture is used incidentally to bolster a case rather than it being the foundation.
2. A failure to engage with the positions of others whether contemporary or historical figures accurately and fairly.

Maybe to call it a sin is too harsh, though surely no more harsh than labelling empathy as such.  However, I do think that there is something serious about the abject failure we see at times.  The Christian publishing world has to do better.