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Shipping cost cannot be calculated. Please enter a valid ZIP Code. Why are we suddenly holding the retailer to blame? Or the publisher? It has always been up to the consumer to use a modicum of common sense in book buying.

Just as the Internet makes it possible to buy one of these books, so too it makes researching them possible,. Wikipedia is full of valuable information, and as such is one of my primary online reference resources. Because this information is available free online does not negate its value.

If a reputable publisher were to re-publish Wikipedia material in book form, that too would be worthwhile. It could very likely make the prices quoted worth paying. The thing about Wikipedia is that it is a work in progress, created by volunteers. When errors are made, and they are, other volunteers correct them, or flag them for a variety of reasons. Because of this, the automated aggregation described is clearly a bad idea. Without any editorial guidance, this type of publication borders on fraud.

I suspect, however, that they are very carefully operating within the letter of the law. Amazon is a very large company, whose business is to make possible for anyone to buy and anyone to sell. Additionally, Amazon does own CreateSpace, which is a fine Print on Demand publisher I know, as I am about to self publish my debt novel with them. But I am frankly horrified at the thought of either Amazon or CreateSpace assuming the mantle of censorship.

They are not stealing anything, the license allows commercial publication. Hi again. The whole thing is a complete fraud. The publication that they have issued with my name on the cover below a totally irrelevant picture of an auditorium has one page with a copy of the Wikipedia entry about me while the rest of the book consists of copies of other Wikipedia pages about the Library of Congress and other subjects and people.

Perhaps they are only robots. They said it will take a while for the withdrawal to become effective. Only by taking action in every case is there any chance that this confidence trick will be stopped entirely. They took one of my books, copied it, translated it into French and now sell it online. As an author, I am frustrated and angry that even in the face of testimony by the President of Authors Guild about this before a Congressional committee, it is impossible to stop it.

They take one site down and 10 more pop up. And by the way, it makes no difference if the book is out of print……only if it is out of copyright which extends for decades. And libraries who do this and claim they OWN the books, what they own is the physical one in their library…. For more info on copyright go to the Library of Congress website: loc. I have a lot of material ripped off by these publishers. Unsure what to do, but surely someone is close enough to the decisionmakers at Amazon and other companies to work out WHY they are continuing to stock such crap.

I cannot see that it is a big earner, especially if people return them all the time and write negative reviews. The Acid Rain Retirement Fund is a Section c 3 nonprofit environmental education organization recognized by the U. Internal Revenue Service since , and use of its name is protected by the copyright laws of the United States. Nobody affiliated with the Acid Rain Retirement Fund made any contribution to this book.

Has anyone heard whether Jimmy Wales has been contacted for comment about these overpriced jokes of publications? An author has made multiple attempts to contact Betascript Publishing concerning their unauthorized publishing of his copyright material. They are involved in more than one scam. I have just discovered that they have ripped off one of my books from part of the Wiki entry, my website and the actual printed book. I appear to be the subject of one of the bogus books.

If the information is taken from Wikipedia, then it is somewhat ironic in that I had a hand in writing what that entry. I have just received one of these books which I had to wait about 21 days for it to arrive. I was really getting quite excited that it may be waiting for me on my arrive home from work.

The title of this book is not important as I am sure that anything published by these companies will be along the same lines ; Leonardo lived along time ago before TV;Teenage mutant ninja turtles ;Helicopters ;Crayons ;index;Further reading. Crap these books are wrong. Avoid them this practice is wrong and I think Amazon should outlaw them ,may be they own them????.

I have never been compelled to comment online before even though I am irritated by a whole shed of modern day values, but when you by a book you are trying to further your knowledge on that subject how ever trivial that is your choice.

Total rubbish bordering on illegal if not immoral. These articles are the product of hundreds of hours of dedicated research and work by competent volunteers. That said, many other Wikipedia articles that have not yet received and passed the scrutiny of the Wikipedia team of new-article patrollers are unreliable and totally worthless. I found that some crooks from BetaScript Publishing published illegally my book in English and in German and sell them via Amazon. This is also questions for Wikipedia.

Why they do nothing against such situation? Maybe they also work together with these crooks? One more question: why nobody in West countries do nothing against such illegal work this group of people? I am going to write about all this shame an article to Russian mass media and also I ask your advice what we might to do together against this crazy situation.

Please write me your opinion to my email. Thnak you in advance. Do not pay a penny, ever, to these scammers! It does take some effort but is worth it. They count on people being unwilling or unable to do anything about their huge scam operation. Have a good laugh or cry at how they describe themselves. The replies I received were from Katharina Bergmann:.

International Book Market Service Ltd. Natalie, many thanks for your great support. I demanded to remove 2 my books with my name. I am going to continue to fight with these crooks using the law. What do you think — why Wiki knowing about that business keeps silence? Wikipedia content is free and it is not illegal for anyone to download anything from Wikipedia. This is why people like Betascript and whatever other name this company uses can justify what they are doing and why it is difficult to legally prosecute them.

We consider what they are doing immoral but proving that it is also illegal, one needs to show specific proof in individual cases. However, it seems that you have a strong case if they have taken a book of yours and published translations of it without your permission. After they reply, you can decide what you want to do.

Good luck! Wikipedia is free content, which can be edited by anyone, so what Betascript is doing is not strictly speaking illegal since everything that goes up on Wikipedia is not copyright. The first was a company that uses a sort of Turing Tests; text analytics and Wikipedia to create books and charge a huge amount for them. They are just semi-randomly strung together from articles found in open sources and then placed up for sale a high prices on Amazon using Print on Demand.

Here is more on it. There is a book actually at least 2 because in amazon. They are listed as currently unavailable, unfortunately.

I bought a book from them lately, thinking it was a good one. It turned out it was not professional at all. And there is nothing I can do to get my bucks back. In this case, that free source online is my book. Unfortunately the world is full of such opportunists and thieves. KG www. Please note that in the book specified by you there are texts exclusively from Wikipedia. Therefore in this case we are definitely not talking about copyrighted texts. I hope this may help other people who have similar problems.

Title: …. ISBN …. Publishing house: Betascript Publishing Edited by: …. It is clear that my book is plagiarized by Betascript Publishing. This is a case of copyright infringement. The fact that I have chosen not to display copyright information in the file does not mean it is not copyrighted. My e-book contains detailed copyright information in embedded form. This is done to protect it from frauds like you. In the lawsuit, this will be used to prove that I am the sole owner of rights to the book and the book is protected under common copyright laws.

If after 2 weeks, I find only one online bookstore where the book is being sold, I will open a lawsuit. And you will see how ambitious the ultra-aggressive NY lawyers can get, and how they can make you regret it.

REPLY 1: r. My book is copyrighted and its contents are plagiarized by Betascript Publishing in the following title:. In my first e-mail I clearly stated that unless all copies of this title, in all formats paper or e-book , are withdrawn within 2 two weeks, I will open a lawsuit.

On If you prove me that your title does not contain material stolen from my book, then I will not open a lawsuit. I give you 2 two weeks to withdraw ALL copies of this title, in all formats paper or e-book.

I will also write e-mails to potential customers book clubs, libraries, etc. I will post details of this case of copyright infringement in many Internet forums. I would like to reiterate our position with regards to Wikipedia content which is copyleft-ed and therefore not related to copyrighted texts in any way.

Wikipedia contents are solely governed by the GNU License and I invite you to go through these conditions. We are convinced that we did not violate any rights of third parties, however, as an act of good faith we have decided to take the title off the market. We have sent the request to all of our partners, but please note that the update of all of our catalogs may take up to several weeks. I have read your decision to take the title off the market. Under these circumstances, no lawsuit will take place.

I was honored. I think I should get a comp copy for posterity though. I would summarize the problem as too much automatization coupled with deliberate dishonesty. Where the latter is prevalent, it is not picked up by knowledgeable human beings. I had a deal with VDM Publishing, the main publisher. I know the authors, respectable academics, who resorted to publishing with VDM because the specialized content had an insufficient market to make conventional publishing viable.

The manuscript was not rejected on the base of poor quality. As librarian I ordered the book via an agent. I returned the book and asked for a replacement which arrived just the same! The investigation was my first introduction to the concept of print-on demand. When my agent could not solve the problem I resorted to e-mailing the publisher, which responded with a free PDF within half an hour and an undertaking to get a hard copy out to me by airmail, which they honoured.

The price was comparable with that of similar softcovers, though I have my doubts if the binding will survive heavy use. Problem: no quality control in the book production phase, though it was the only copy manufactured! Once a human being got involved, the customer service was, actually better than I am used to.

Too bad if they now are up alleged shady practices. I know little about the economics of print-on-demand. We are too small. Basically with our digital copier and ringbinder we render the same service.

The technician refers all printing requests from flash drives to me or my deputy and we really want to know if they own the copyright, or whom if not the requestor themselves. We google the title etc to establish who owns the copyright. We have no means, time and expert-wise, however, to screen the contents for its origins. Maybe we should start using plagiarism software, but I yet have to investigate the cost of that. My job is basically copyright protection. The poor client who pays large sums for pirated Wikipedia articles as I have severe doubts about its quality.

As for Amazon, I think they suffer the same problem where computers decide and do everything, like the case with the e-book on grooming children for sex. Yet Amazon had to be notified about it and the human process of decision to retract was slow.

So I am somewhat at a loss. Like any librarian I want to promote free dissemination of information. Editorial interference and censorship do not go well with my hippie style liberalism. Yet everything has limits, and the buck stops at crime.

One problem which may be bigger than the mentioned two limiting factors, is the lack of a lucrative market which may prevent useful information to get on the street. Therefore I will give even vanity publishing a chance — as long as they publish their own original work.

Quality is of course also important, but if that is the only criterion then Wikipedia and millions of websites must also be taken off the air. Every reader must evaluate, check and ask questions. What brought me to this site is an investigation on the related growing phenomenon of predatory open access journal publishing.

If you want to turn your blog into a book, there are many much better options, including just […]. Your correspondents miss the main point. Universities do not approve of students citing Wikipedia in essays and dissertations. Unless the academics know about Alphascript and associated entities a student can cite from their material and will most likely get away with it. An article in a Tasmanian newspaper about the Alphascript scam was canned.

It appears a student at the University of Tasmania marked down in an essay after the scam received publicity and his tutor read about it. The student was the son of a prominent journalist at the newspaper. Legal reasons were given for the removal of the article, but that was not the real reason.

Students at UTAS are now free to cite from Alpascript books and they will most likely get away with it. And Alphascript will sell a mighty lot of copies as a result.

There was many noise about selling books from Wikipedia, the encyclopedia, pages, in It looks than today nobody is worried by this scam. Good thing I read what Betascript does. Surhone, Tennoe, and Hennsonow, how much do you make with your Mauritius company? Your email address will not be published. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment.

Chris Rand Writes Cambridge, England. Chris 27 February Rindis March 10, at pm You have a few assumptions that I believe are mistaken. Chris March 10, at pm Thanks for that, Rindis. Rindis March 11, at am I could be wrong. Rindis March 11, at am Sigh. Soliton March 29, at pm There is a project to makebooks available free , and General Books LLC is printing books from this and selling them, although most can be obtained free by PDF download, or by use of other formats.

Randall Hand April 22, at am Wow.. I just stumbled across this myself.. Sheila Leary April 23, at am I work in publishing. There are Yahoo Answers, forum emails, and blog posts inquiring about or investigating this publisher, and the consensus is that the publisher assembles […] Reply.

The First English Book on Chiptune! Wolfy August 4, at pm I recently sent a complaint to Amazon regarding getting recommended books by Alphascript Publishing. Rest assured that, we are aware of this issue and working to prevent it occurring.

Nile August 14, at am I would suggest that the Angry Librarian tracks down the originator of the orders for those 25 Alphascript books. Bekky August 14, at pm I got scammed by this too, bought a book on digital archiving from amazon only to discover it was just a p.

JMatte August 14, at pm I also made the mistake of buying one of their books, published under the Alphascript name. In any case, sent the book back and got a refund. September 2, at pm […] found a brand new book on a topic of interest. However, the comments another blog that recently discovered the Alphascript phenomenon suggest that the aim may be to confuse larger Amazon buyers who can be easily tricked into dropping […] Reply.

Thanks Reply. Ally Hauptmann-Gurski November 19, at am This is about the oddest thing that I have seen for a long time. Rachel December 18, at am I too have bought items published by this publisher in error.

Frustrating new scam stylee internet repro books December 27, at am […] : Amazon. Marseken: Books and The odd tale of Alphascript Publishing and Betascript Publishing whilst i am not sure is anything illegal is going on, its very frustrating that they are doing […] Reply.