[Foundation-l] Evil Book

Mon Nov 1 21:24:51 UTC 2010

> On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 11:04 PM, Ryan Kaldari <rkaldari at wikimedia.org>
> wrote:
>> As has been rightfully pointed out to me, if these robo-book publishers
>> are following the terms of the CC-by-sa licensing (which is doubtful),
>> there isn't really anything we can do about it. I just wonder what will
>> happen to the online book market once wikipedia robo-books become 50%
>> or
>> more of the search results (which is already true in some obscure
>> cases). Perhaps Wikipedia will inadvertently cause the demise of Amazon
>> and the rebirth of local bookstores.
>>
>> Ryan Kaldari
>
> While that would be a result devoutly to be wished for, I expect it will
> rather more likely lead to Amazon tightening policies on what they will
> help distribute -- not that that would be a bad result either.
>
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> Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]]

Yes, this seems below whatever low threshold they have. I'm going to
forward this to internal and see if we can't get some action.

Fred