What is this D book?

[Daniel Gibson]

On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 10:36 AM, spir <denis.spir at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 19 Dec 2010 20:33:39 -0800
> Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg at gmx.com> wrote:
>
>> The funny thing is that I wouldn't have expected anyone to be able to create
>> book 96 pages long on D just out of Wikipedia articles. And $44 for 96 pages?!
>> LOL. The knowledge in that book would have to be pure gold to worth that kind of
>> price. What a total rip-off. It probably popped up just because TDPL was released
>> and some guys were looking to cash in. Maybe they were even hoping that some
>> people would be foolish enough to mistake their book for TDPL.
>>
>> I don't think that print-on-demand publishing is necessarily a bad thing, but
>> this is obviously a case where someone is trying to cash in on something that
>> they did no work for.
>
> I agree the price is surprisingly high.
> But you are very wrong in stating "trying to cash in on something that they did no work for": Making a book out of diverse material is _much_ work (I've done it). Actually so much and difficult work that it's often worth rewriting from scratch! Just like trying to put together a bunch of lib modules and make an app run fine out of that ;-)
>

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).