is a direct copy of the English Wikipedia article.
There are many more books like this made by the same company.
2010/11/1 KIZU Naoko <aphaia(a)gmail.com>om>:
Well while Ryan and Fred look having a valid
concern, on this
particular issue
I have no idea what you guys discuss.
The article seems to be a full translation of Japanese Wikipedia
article which seem to be based on three Japanese books (see
"references" in the jawiki article) all in paper, not robo-books.
On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 5:09 AM, Ryan Kaldari <rkaldari(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
It is actually becoming somewhat difficult to
search for books on
obscure subjects on Amazon or Alibris without being completely
spammed
with matches for "robo-books" automatically generated from Wikipedia
articles. Recently, I was doing research for a Wikipedia article on a
rather obscure type of spider, and I came very close to buying a book
on
it before I realized that it was actually just a reprint of the
content
I had already written for the article. So I almost paid someone for
my
own writing! Perhaps we should put together a project to keep track
of
these robo-book publishers so that we can start asking for some
royalties (or else sue them for not giving us proper credit).
Ryan Kaldari
On 10/31/10 9:41 AM, Fred Bauder wrote:
> There is a book review of a 98 page book supposedly about Ukita
> Kōkichi (who apparently prematurely invented the hang glider)
>
>
http://blog.seattlepi.com/travelforaircraft/archives/226709.asp
>
> Which consists of this Wikipedia article:
>
>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukita_K%C5%8Dkichi
>
> and a few others
>
> Listed on Amazon for 50 bucks:
>
>
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/6131076278/
>
> together with a bevy of other sellers:
>
>
http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/6131076278/ref=dp_olp_new?ie=UTF8&am…
>
> Fred
>
>
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