I want to add another aspect, which makes Alphacript a PITA:
Their arbitrary selection of author names. From all those contributors
of all articles included in their (usually incompetently compiled) selection,
they just pick the "best sounding", i.e. realnamish, on the front and into
the amazon sy
This won't work. The problem is that these books are not being clearly
marketed as printed Wikipedia articles. So, marketing your books as up to
date printed versions of Wikipedia articles isn't going to be competing with
these books.
I recommend doing a positive campaign where you encourage peopl
Geoffrey Plourde wrote:
> The single best way to kill them is to reprint the exact same books, then
> sell them at the low low price of cost + 10%. When people start snapping them
> up like fruitcakes, Alphascript will be finished.
>
>
>
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Not just the same books, but the same books corrected
Geoffrey Plourde wrote:
> The single best way to kill them is to reprint the exact same books, then
> sell them at the low low price of cost + 10%. When people start snapping them
> up like fruitcakes, Alphascript will be finished.
>
>
From looking at only two books published by Alphascript
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Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Alphascript Publishing: 1900+ copy&pasted books
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2009/8/17 Jay Litwyn :
> Maybe there should be a [[:category:printed articles]]. It should ignore
> personal and educational use with a note at the
2009/8/17 Jay Litwyn :
> Maybe there should be a [[:category:printed articles]]. It should ignore
> personal and educational use with a note at the top saying "Alphascript
> Publishing used this article in whole or major part for a commercial
> printing of Wikipedia.". It would be nice of them to c
Maybe there should be a [[:category:printed articles]]. It should ignore
personal and educational use with a note at the top saying "Alphascript
Publishing used this article in whole or major part for a commercial
printing of Wikipedia.". It would be nice of them to create the category and
make
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 1:20 PM, David Gerard wrote:
> 2009/8/14 Renata St :
>
> >> > 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.
>
> >>
2009/8/14 Renata St :
>> > 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
>
> >> As long as the books give sufficient indication that they are from
> >> Wikipedia, ...
>
> > 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.
>
> Another alternative might be for Wikimedians to put together a company
> that would sell similar books to the public at cost, perhaps on a print
> on demand basis so as to get the latest versions. Article selection
> might be the same, and they could even use identical titles for each
> book,
2009/8/14 Renata St :
>> As long as the books give sufficient indication that they are from
>> Wikipedia, ...
> 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.
Y
>
> As long as the books give sufficient indication that they are from
> Wikipedia, ...
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.
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2009/8/13 David Goodman :
> I would be exceedingly uncomfortable with us organizing a negative
> campaign against any publisher not actually violating our copyright.
> . A factual campaign, providing information is another matter. It
> would be entirely appropriate for individuals, even in a some
Hoi,
As long as the books give sufficient indication that they are from
Wikipedia, as long as the license requirement is met, this gentlemen is
welcome to ask as much as people are willing to pay. If anything this is
EXACTLY something that we can do as well. The German Verein did a good job a
few y
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 8:49 AM, Nikola Smolenski wrote:
>
> I don't know if they commonly do it but at least at
> http://amazon.decenturl.com/amazon.com-prehistoric-europe they openly
> say it's from Wikipedia.
>
And still by reading that review you get the impression that they're
building upon w
Renata St wrote:
> They "deceive" potential buyers into thinking it's an original book/content
> without disclosing that it's just a copy from Wikipedia. There are
> disclaimers inside the book -- but that comes only after opening the wallet.
> Someone should put it up front.
I don't know if they
David Goodman wrote:
> I would be exceedingly uncomfortable with us organizing a negative
> campaign against any publisher not actually violating our copyright.
> . A factual campaign, providing information is another matter. It
> would be entirely appropriate for individuals, even in a somewhat
>
That was kinda my point.
They "deceive" potential buyers into thinking it's an original book/content
without disclosing that it's just a copy from Wikipedia. There are
disclaimers inside the book -- but that comes only after opening the wallet.
Someone should put it up front.
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009
I would be exceedingly uncomfortable with us organizing a negative
campaign against any publisher not actually violating our copyright.
. A factual campaign, providing information is another matter. It
would be entirely appropriate for individuals, even in a somewhat
coordinated way, to add a revi
When I worked for the FSF I helped to run a campaign against the
Amazon Kindle (and, DRM in general). We did an action called "The
Kindle Swindle" in which we asked people to tag all DRM ebooks and the
kindle itself with the tags "kindle swindle" and "DRM".
People went ahead and tagged close to a
It was raised before on the Village Pump, but I think this is so disturbing
that we ought to do something.
"Alphascript Publishing" has published over 1900 (and counting) books, all
available on Amazon. Prices range from $31 to $179. All of these books are
simple computer-generated copies from Wik
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