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Tech Book scam.

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  • 03-12-2003 3:14pm
    #1
    Hobbes
    Registered Users Posts: 21,264 ✭✭✭✭


    Only noticed by accident.

    Looking through Amazon for a book I came across one which was $100+ and a review of an annoyed person. Basically the book was 6 pages long and it appears he was the only one who bought it.

    However for a laugh I did a search for the company "Faulkner Information Services" in Amazon. they have tons of these books on various subjects selling for $90+ a pop with an average of 7 pages and mostly full of crap you could pull from google.

    Quite amazing they can get away with it.


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    #2
    Imposter
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    I particulary like this one. The review is great and it's quite a big publication. Make sure your printer is not low on pages if you're going to print it! Cheap at double the price.


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    satchmo
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    Considering there are millions of books on Amazon, it's sales ranking of 12,941 is pretty damn amazing :eek:
    Those guys must be making a killing.


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    Talliesin
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    Another amazingly bad one is Rdf Specifications by Dan Brickley, except that I know Dan and he didn't write that (or rather he wrote a spec for the W3C and these chancers published it in this book).


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    jmcc
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    Almost the same as the infamous "Native Snakes of Hawaii" book for libraries. It was a very expensive illustrated book. A lot of libraries bought it but the pages were blank. Apparently there are no native snakes on Hawaii. The e-book business is filled with scams like this because of the low cost of entry. A traditional tech book would cost at least €25K to publish even for a limited run. For Amazon, all you have to do is bundle the PDF to Amazon's digital content aggregator [1].

    Regards...jmcc
    [1] The process is really called content aggregation apparently.


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