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Magelin
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Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2011 1:10 am

Does anyone know what this is?

http://cgi.ebay.com/Tomb-Horrors-NEW-/130445370480?pt=AU_Non_Fiction_Books_2&hash=item1e5f266470

Original 28mm fantasy gaming miniatures at http://www.centerstageminis.com

misterspock
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Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2011 1:27 am

I think this is one of those stupid ideas where the seller prints out a wikipedia page and sells it to the public

Mars
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Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2011 1:35 am

misterspock wrote:I think this is one of those stupid ideas where the seller prints out a wikipedia page and sells it to the public

Ya, I think that is what it is too. I think they have some kind of program to autogenerate "books" of wiki info. They probably have some kind of spider program that starts with a base topic (something that gets a lot of hits). It then copies that wiki page and then crawls to other links within that page to garther more "related" info. Once a certain number of pages of info has been gathered they stop and autogenerate a book for sale.

There seem to be a number of companies doing this sort of thing.

sauromatian
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Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2011 7:52 am

"High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles!"

Wouldn't that be a contradiction of terms?

SimperingToad
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Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2011 10:18 am

150 pages of Wikipedia material? I'm assuming it grabs linked pages as well, in which case, some of those links may be copyrighted.

Badmike
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Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2011 10:24 am

Here's a bit more explanation....pretty much as sleazy as you would think:

http://www.chrisrand.com/blog/index.php ... ublishing/

Verdict: Rip off

Mike B.

BTW, there are over 8300 of these article reprint "books" on ebay....carefully read descriptions before buying!!!

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Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2011 10:44 am

Who would ever fall for something this stupid and at that price. Pretty idiotic :evil:

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Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2011 11:00 am

I reported it.

We'll see what happens, if anything.

And I reported it to WoTC...

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