Here's a blog on these types of publishing companies. Both Alphascript and Betascript, are VDM Publishing:
http://www.chrisrand.com/blog/index.php/2010/02/27/odd-tale-alphascript-publishing-betascript-publishing/ Its mostly legal, but clearly these people have no ethical or moral values. Publishing things from the public domain, and charging a lot of money for it. I could see it, if they did it as a service, and charged a nominal fee. But as the article mentioned, no humans seem to be actually involved in compiling the data. Some "bot" just vacuums in some Wikipedia verb-age, and craps out a book. That's probably also farmed out to some "publishing-on-demand" service, of which there a few on the net. They also sell thru Amazon, and other such vendors. The blog author fails to mention, that Amazon, also works as a broker, so most of its wares, it doesn't even stock. Amazon in most cases works more like eBay, but the identity of the seller, is more obscure, than it is on eBay. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Print_on_demand http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VDM_Publishing Start your own Amazon store, and sell used unwashed hankies: http://webstore.amazon.com/?ld=SEWBGSRCH-3785&s_kwcid=TC|12902|amazon%20stores||S|e|21826358036 There is a lawsuit pending, though the Wordpress article has been deleted. On Wednesday, August 29, 2012 11:42:57 AM UTC-7, Nocrotec wrote: > > http://www.ebay.com/itm/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=150890331475 > I never saw that book. > 88 pages? A joke, or what. > Dieter > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/neonixie-l/-/rtBD3xRpln0J. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
