What is this D book?

Vladimir Panteleev vladimir at thecybershadow.net
Mon Dec 20 13:25:08 PST 2010


On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 11:39:07 +0200, Daniel Gibson <metalcaedes at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> I don't think they put much work in it. Probably just print the
> wikipedia-article and some related (==linked) articles, maybe
> recursively to fill at least these 96 pages.
> I'd be surprised if these books weren't 99% automatically generated
> (the last 1% is selecting a picture for the cover).

 From [1]:

> As an example of the "care" given to the books, the book "History of  
> Georgia (country)" is about the European country Georgia but has a cover  
> image of Atlanta in the American state Georgia.[nan 7] The Wikipedia  
> article History of Georgia (country) does not make such a comical  
> blunder. Another example is a book about an American football team with  
> a soccer player on the cover.[nan 8]

   [1]:  
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:PrimeHunter/Alphascript_Publishing_sells_free_articles_as_expensive_books

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  Vladimir                            mailto:vladimir at thecybershadow.net


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