On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 8:11 PM, Kathy Knapp <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I actually clicked on an ad at the side of my computer screen. It showed > an origami book that I did not recognize. I find it interesting that it is > a compilation of articles in Wikipedia. I wonder if this is legal. Below > is the text of what I copied from Barnes & Noble. Has anyone actually seen > the book? Surely there is not 124 pages worth on origami at Wikipedia, or > is there? > > There are a number of "publishers" that use some sort of automated process to gather creative-commons content related to a certain keyword, then dump it into an ebook format and use a print-on-demand service to make it look like a real book. This is pretty clearly one of them. The editors here are trying to trick you into paying for free content. There's no reason to buy this book, just go to wikipedia and read the articles there: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Origami --Andrew ______________________________ http://www.flickr.com/photos/ahudson http://ahudsonorigami.wordpress.com/
