It appears that
http://www.alphascript-publishing.com/ is dedicated to compiling wikipedia articles, printing themon paper and passing them off as original books. They sell a lot of those "books" through amazon.com and the only way they can be identified is by looking for the book's editors (listed as
Frederic P. Miller,
Agnes F. Vandome and
John McBrewster).
That may not be fraud in itself (it may depend on the way you see it) but I believe that it is a bit dishonest if the company itself openly opts to sell those books without openly informing the potential buyer that they are about to spend
nearly $190 on wikipedia articles. And the company boasts that
they refuse to inform Amazon customers that those "books" are based on wikipedia articles.
As they state in their "press comments" section:
Quote:
Q: If so, shouldn’t this be made clear in the product description?
Alphascript: It is pointed out in every Alphascript book that contents are Wikipedia articles. Do we now have to write in Amazon-books: “Attention! Books contains Wikipedia!”?
Then other publishing houses would have to point out in their books: “Attention! Book contains nonsense!”, or: “Attention! Book has only sex-scenario!”
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Fraud or not, that doesn't sound honest at all. So please spread the word and, if possible, write a review or two on their amazon books to try to warn unsuspecting customers.