Darth Lucas said:

Smithers said:

I bought "The Star Wars" at the EMP museum a little while back and I don't see anything useful in it to add history to the Jedi nor the Sith. The story is all over the place and you constantly meet new characters throughout the story. The only thing new that I learned was that the Jedi are called the "Jedi Bendu" I can look for more stuff but really I don't see anything that useful or inspirational

Well that's because it's not supposed to add to the world that exists. Like it doesn't take place in the existing star wars universe. It is actually a direct adaptation of an earlier draft of the original Star Wars script. It's not really supposed to teach you more about the Jedi or the Sith, it's just like an alternate story showing like "yeah this is what Star Wars could have been."

The flaws in the story are probably what spurred the rewrites ultimately bringing us to the story we all know and love today.

My thoughts exactly