22 Oct
2010
22 Oct
'10
3:24 p.m.
On 2010 Oct 22, at 1:50 PM, Richard wrote:
In article <0a6a68fb0fdee6ef7676831991eea62a at cs.ubc.ca>,
Brent Hilpert <hilpert at cs.ubc.ca> writes:
Where there are customer reviews of these 'books', all those I have
come across indicate the 'editorial' contribution is non-existant or
next to it. I suspect as John was suggesting it's probably all or
mostly automated.
Customer review of "Flywheel Energy Storage":
.. at a simply amazing price. For two dollars fifty cents a page you
get 96 pages of
Wikipedia content. And nothing else. Not even edited before it's
published.
The chutzpah of the publishers beggars the imagination.
Or read the customer reviews of this gem (one of their "books" is
"Criticism of Wikipedia":
http://www.amazon.com/Criticism-Wikipedia-Frederic-P-Miller/dp/
6130056184/ref=tag_dpp_lp_edpp_ttl_in
Scam.
On 2010 Oct 22, at 1:05 PM, Richard wrote:
I inferred that they didn't include linked articles by robot, but
rather by editorial decision.
In article <ab170d981a4cc5536f1e0a24ccba47a5 at cs.ubc.ca>,
Brent Hilpert <hilpert at cs.ubc.ca> writes:
I would guess as much, but when you look at all the links in a typical
wikipedia article, including them in a book about the topic quickly
becomes rather specious, granted I/we don't know how many or which of
them are being included. How they manage to make, for example, "USS
Dempsey" into 96 pages
when
the wikipedia entry is maybe 2 pages is another question.
They include linked articles.