Re: AW: Another take on Wikipedia and (academic) libraries

From: Michele Newberry <fclmin_at_nyob>
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 11:47:44 -0400
To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
You can find the scoop at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VDM_Publishing

And, for those of us who struggled to comprehend the Google translate 
version of the article in the original posting, here's one with syntax 
that is more understandable to our uneducated ear:
http://www.chrisrand.com/blog/index.php/2010/02/27/odd-tale-alphascript-publishing-betascript-publishing/

And if you want a title list should you decide such content is worth 
collecting: http://isbndb.com/d/publisher/betascript_publishing.html

There's lots of information about this practice out there if one just 
knew it needed finding.

  - Michele

On 10/29/2010 3:09 AM, Porth, Robert wrote:
> Just checking new IT books to purchase for our library and crawling through Amazon ("computer and internet", before October 2010, sorted by date.)  I'm in the middle of August now and there are lots and lots and lots of books with "High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles".
>
> Publisher is "Betascript Publishing" in all cases.
>
> Made a according comment in one case (a gave it one star vote), I'm curious if Amazon will publish it.
>
> Regards,
>
> Robert Porth
>
>    

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