[Foundation-l] Evil Book

[Fred Bauder]

My thought was for the Foundation to approach Amazon regarding carrying
listings of such books which seriously represent their content. as this
one does. Such a book approaches fraud.

Fred Bauder

> I see, thanks Mike. Personally I'm not for this kind of attempt, I'd
> rather agree with Ryan: if and only if they complies with CC-BY-SA
> deeds, is there any room for us to prevent them legally to spread it
> even in a surprisingly overestimated price? Thought?
>
> 2010/11/2 M. Williamson <node.ue at gmail.com>:
>> 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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