In all fairness, they do describe it as:
"Product Description
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "
They make no attempt to hide that fact although whether lifting articles
from there and then binding them and selling them is legal, I don't know.
Shows it pays to read the description though before parting with large sums
of cash for what you can get free on the Internet (and, let's face it, the
Wikpedia is always 100% accurate isn't it?) - (that was meant to be
sarcastic, by the way).
Good for you to point it out Matt, thanks (puts cheque book away).
Colin Hill
,----- Original Message -----
From: "Matt Seattle" <[email protected]>
To: "Dartmouth NPS" <[email protected]>; "NPS Discussion"
<[email protected]>; "bellowspipes"
<[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 10:35 AM
Subject: [NSP] Warning: scam
I found the following on Amazon for a hefty price -
Music of Northumbria: Northumbria, Folk music, Border ballad,
Northumbrian smallpipes, Bagpipes, Fiddle, The Ballad of Chevy Chase,
Rapper sword, ... Bagpipe, Border pipes, Pastoral pipes (Paperback)
by Frederic P. Miller (Editor), Agnes F. Vandome (Editor), John
McBrewster (Editor)
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Was curious as I'd not heard of the authors or the publisher,
alphascript - googled them and quickly learnt that the setup is a scam
which recycles wikipedia articles and packages them as a plausible-ish
looking book. Your own work may even be in there.
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