[Foundation-l] Evil Book

[M. Williamson]

The issue is that this book:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/6131076278/

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 at gmail.com>:
> 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 at 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
>>> K&#333;kichi (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&condition=new
>>>
>>> Fred
>>>
>>>
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