[LAU] [OT]: Book spam - example 'Qtractor book'

[Rui Nuno Capela]

On 12/03/2012 04:38 PM, Lorenzo Sutton wrote:
> When I stumbled upon this:
>
> http://www.amazon.co.uk/Qtractor-Jesse-Russell/dp/5512560239/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1354552431&sr=1-1
>
>
> I read that it's not a new scam, and that they probably have around
> 40,000 'books' of that kind and can do it more-or-less legally (although
> I'm not totally convinced that the share-alike is totally complied with,
> that is they should probably release the sources to the books, which as
> far as I can tell are compilations of wikipedia articles)
>
> And this is an additional reason for which I will be avoiding Amazon as
> much as possible.
>

don't know how wikipedia material could raise to 170pages of printing 
material but if it's the user manual that's being ripped off then it's 
GFDL in charge, not CC-whatever

cheers
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rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela
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