More info and background: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:PrimeHunter/Alphascript_Publishing_sells_free_articles_as_expensive_books
On 12/20/10, Daniel Gibson <metalcae...@gmail.com> wrote: > Am 20.12.2010 04:29, schrieb Andrej Mitrovic: >> I've accidentally stumbled upon this page: >> http://www.amazon.com/programming-language-Frederic-P-Miller/dp/6131799954/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1292815189&sr=1-1 >> >> Apparently this is some D book that was published in July this year, but >> I've never heard of this before. It also has a stamp that says "High >> quality content by Wikipedia articles". What does that mean? Did they >> collect wiki articles about D and put them in a book? >> >> Actually I was looking at Google's cool new Ngram thingy: >> http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=D+programming&year_start=1960&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=3 >> >> You can click on one of those year range links to get all books that have >> some specific term, like "D programming" in them (there's a lot of >> false-positives though, e.g. 3D programming, :p). > > See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphascript >
