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- From: "James J. O'Donnell" <provost@georgetown.edu>
- Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2010 20:04:40 EDT
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Jan Velterop pointed to a Suddeutsche Zeitung article about books that appear to be no more than compilation of Wikipedia articles. The book highlighted in that article came from the publisher whose URL and "about" appear below and bear reading. "10,000 new titles" and "copyleft projects" are phrases that will give food for thought. Such books are an additional contribution to a new flood of "books for sale" on familiar sites, including Amazon and Abebooks. Cassiodorus is a sixth century AD author I've known for many years. Look for him on Abebooks now and find that of the first 50 hits for that author, forty are print-on-demand reprints from Google books and the like of volumes of very limited, if any, value. The lowest-priced several copies available offer a title that he never wrote, but that appears to be a garbled version of something he did write. Three of the top 50 are scholarly monographs of very limited value and reach, but at least they are real books at real prices. The other seven are copies of a 1946 translation of one of his works whose introductory section of c. 60 pages was, as I pointed out in print thirty years ago, substantially plagiarized from a 19th century volume. It gets harder and harder to buy a good book. Jim O'Donnell Georgetown http://www.alphascript-publishing.com/ Welcome to Alphascript Publishing Alphascript publishing publishes academic research worldwide - at no cost to our authors. Annually, we publish more than 10,000 new titles and are thus one of the leading publishing houses of academic research. We specialize in publishing copyleft projects. >From the large number of texts that are continuously being completed, we identify those which - due to their quality and practical relevance - are suitable for publication. In this way, the latest research is conveyed quickly and tailored to the needs of the respective specialist audience. All monographs are published by Alphascript Publishing as a specialist book in a high-quality paperback fitting with an individual cover image, ISBN and barcode. Our titles are produced on-site in the USA, UK and Germany, and distributed worldwide via the leading retailers. ***
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