Anyone know about the book on Robert Kuntz?
- Thread starter Virel
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Living Legend
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Man, my wife's little brother had quite a laugh at your thread title.
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Melan
Explorer
I may be interested in a scholarly book on early D&D, but...
$66 for the trade paperback? Really?
"Note: Content for this publication has been taken from one or more articles found on the WIKIPEDIA website."? Really?
A company variously calling itself Alphascript Publishing and Betascript Publishing is taking articles from Wikipedia and publishing them as books. It would appear that the act of doing that is legal, but from the outside, many of the books give the appearance of having been put together by some automated system, because the titles (and presumably contents) seem to be comprised of a Wikipedia page forming the starting point for the book and then a load of other Wikipedia pages which are linked-to from that page. It’s all very strange.
Really really?
$66 for the trade paperback? Really?
"Note: Content for this publication has been taken from one or more articles found on the WIKIPEDIA website."? Really?
A company variously calling itself Alphascript Publishing and Betascript Publishing is taking articles from Wikipedia and publishing them as books. It would appear that the act of doing that is legal, but from the outside, many of the books give the appearance of having been put together by some automated system, because the titles (and presumably contents) seem to be comprised of a Wikipedia page forming the starting point for the book and then a load of other Wikipedia pages which are linked-to from that page. It’s all very strange.
Really really?
Dire Bare
Legend
It's a scam. This "publishing" company "publishes" a large number of books which are simply hard-copy print-outs of Wikipedia content, for exorbitant prices. I'd really like to meet the folks who have actually purchased any of these. How these douchebags stay in business I can't figure.
Melan
Explorer
There is more in the Wikipedia article on VDM Publishing. Apparently, they hope their books are bought accidentally by clueless or hasty libraries.
In a way, it is pretty amazing, though. If you told someone in 1990 that in The Future, there would be an immense, free repository of knowledge available to almost everyone, and machines would be automatically assembling and publishing randomly created books from this content, they would probably respond with something like "Wasn't that on Star Trek?"
Just think about that.
In a way, it is pretty amazing, though. If you told someone in 1990 that in The Future, there would be an immense, free repository of knowledge available to almost everyone, and machines would be automatically assembling and publishing randomly created books from this content, they would probably respond with something like "Wasn't that on Star Trek?"
Just think about that.
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