[WikiEN-l] Alphascript Publishing: 1900+ copy&pasted books fromWikipedia
Jay Litwyn
brewhaha at freenet.edmonton.ab.ca
Mon Aug 17 03:48:54 UTC 2009
I think this message is better directed at Amazon and other distributors.
Nothing is inherently wrong with mirroring Wikipedia on paper. And, I think
that belies some of the difficulties in selecting articles, doing a real
copy edit (that is manually re-typing it to make it flow, among other
things, and I am not sure that they do that), and formatting it for paper.
Some might think that paper is a wasteful business, and to read those who
want to bill me electronically, it is. You must understand, though, that I
doubt it is the intention of AlphaScript publishing to dishonour us, and
really, their selection of us is an honour. To my knowledge, all that is
required to meet a -BY- requirement is one mention of all contributors. I
think that is part of how we managed to pare wikipedia down to a DVD release
for WalMart: I do not know--did not buy it. The total of all edits is over
four terabytes, which would not fit (that is about a thousand DVDs). I would
be interested in their tables of content. It would be nice to figure it into
our own selection processes. And hey...are you sure they are not among our
monetary contributors?
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