http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2009-08-17/News_and_notes Alphascript Publishing sells free articles as expensive books
An Amazon.com <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon.com> book search on 9 June 2009 gives 1009 (6 August, gives 1,859) "books" from Alphascript Publishing.[nan 1]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2009-08-17/News_and_notes#cite_note-0>1003 of the books are described as "by John McBrewster, Frederic P. Miller, and Agnes F. Vandome". They are called editors in the book listings. It seems the only content of the many books is free Wikipedia articles with no sign that these three people have contributed to them. The articles are often poorly printed with features such as missing characters from foreign languages, and numerous images of arrows where Wikipedia had links. It appears much better to read the original articles for free at the Wikipedia website than paying a lot of money for what has been described as a scam or hoax. Advertising for the books at Amazon and elsewhere does not reveal the free source of all the content. It is only revealed inside the books which may satisfy the license requirements for republishing of Wikipedia articles. On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 11:24 PM, Roshan <c.pix...@gmail.com> wrote: > He write Wikipedia articles. so, i guess this will be exact copy of what we > read in wikipedia. and his other books all got worst rating on Amazon. > > > > On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 10:10 PM, Amith Chandhran < > amithchandh...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> >> Have you heard of this book? >> >> >> http://www.landmarkonthenet.com/Books/A-R-Rahman-Miller-Frederic-P-/9786130218751 >> >> More info please! >> >> Thanks, >> >> - >> >> > > > > -- > ----------------------------------- > http://roshanravi.com > http://ramblingsoul.com > http://cssheaven.org > > -- ----------------------------------- http://roshanravi.com http://ramblingsoul.com http://cssheaven.org
