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 > Kōkichi (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 > > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
