[Foundation-l] Closing the Circle to Published Content (was Re: Evil Book)

Tue Nov 2 04:41:43 UTC 2010

On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 3:04 PM, Nikola Smolenski <smolensk at eunet.rs> wrote:
> Дана Tuesday 02 November 2010 00:48:06 Robert S. Horning написа:
>> The problem here is that the publisher is being deceptive as to the
>> origin of the content and how it was put together.  Since I haven't seen
>> the book itself and can only react to what is on the amazon.com.  I
>> guess this is a "buyer beware" in regards to whatever you purchase in
>> this fashion.
>
> By the way, this seems to be limited to this publisher Betascript, who does give misleading descriptions: http://www.amazon.com/Ukita-Kokichi-Lambert-M-Surhone/dp/6131076278/

This is covered in

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VDM_Publishing

> There's this Books LLC with more accurate descriptions: http://www.amazon.com/Tairo-Tokugawa-Tadakatsu-Kagekatsu-Masatoshi/dp/1155945018/

They are not very accurate about the content; it is missing images,
formula, etc.

http://booksllc.net/faqs.cfm

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John Vandenberg