[Foundation-l] Alphascript Publishing: 1900+ copy&pasted books from Wikipedia

David Gerard dgerard at gmail.com
Fri Aug 14 17:20:30 UTC 2009


2009/8/14 Renata St <renatawiki at gmail.com>:

>> > Inside the book -- yes, plenty of indication about copying. But nothing
>> to
>> > warn you before you buy. People are buying these books tricked into
>> thinking
>> > it's an original content.

>> Yuh. Point it out in reviews etc.

> Exactly, except that there are 2000 such books. Amazon would block me for
> spamming (irony!) if I attempted to review all of them.


Hah. Put up a blog entry or web page detailing your concern and asking
others to help?


- d.




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