[Wikimedia-l] And you thought the Amazon "Wikipedia" books were bad

Sage Ross ragesoss+wikipedia at gmail.com
Thu Dec 13 18:57:03 UTC 2012


On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 1:54 PM, Mathias Schindler
<mathias.schindler at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 7:25 PM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
>> http://singularityhub.com/2012/12/13/patented-book-writing-system-lets-one-professor-create-hundreds-of-thousands-of-amazon-books-and-counting/
>>
>> He's patented the method, too. Hopefully he will enforce the patent.
>
> Noam Cohen wrote about him in 2008:
> http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/14/business/worldbusiness/14iht-14link.11952478.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
> Little has changed since then.
>

This, if I recall correctly, is some Wikimedians geeking out over how
cool his methods were:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aaron,_SJ_and_Mako_at_Boston_Wikipedia_Meetup,_2009-08-18.jpg

:-)

-Sage



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