Talk:OmniScriptum/Archives/2013
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Gone from Amazon?
As of today (Feb 14, 2013), I cannot find any more titles by Alphascript Publishing in the Amazon catalogue. I have tried several sites (UK/US/DE) and they seem to be gone. Searching for the usual editor names turns up no results anymore either. When I do a web search for specific titles they offered, I get results for a lot of other online book stores, but not Amazon. Does anyone know whether Amazon has removed this publisher's titles from their store? 84.226.129.169 (talk) 15:21, 14 February 2013 (UTC)
20.3.2013 Wed I'm the author of the following title, plagiarized by Betascript Publishing: Xiuzhen Tu, 2010, 124 pages, 39 Euro https://www.morebooks.de/store/gb/book/xiuzhen-tu/isbn/978-613-2-23486-5 It's trs of a Taoist diagram, about Chinese internal alchemy (neidan), and is 117 pages long. These so-called publishers steal Wikipedia contributors' efforts. The legal term for this is "theft of effort" or "intellectual property theft". The info on the above Web page says: "Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or OTHER FREE SOURCES ONLINE." In this case, that free source online is my book. So the thing is, THEY DON'T ONLY STEAL WIKI EFFORTS, they also plagiarize stuff NOT PUBLISHED ON Wikipedia, like my book. In my PDF file, the "Copy" and "Print" commands are disabled, but it's not too difficult to find a way of copying the contents, or having them printed on paper and then OCRing. My book is totally free and is linked at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiuzhen_Tu "External links" section "Bilingual (Chinese-English) text of Xiuzhen tu (11 MB PDF file)" Unfortunately the world is full of such opportunists and thieves. And they're on the increase. More info on: http://www.chrisrand.com/blog/index.php/2010/02/27/odd-tale-alphascript-publishing-betascript-publishing/#comment-18755 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.131.243.33 (talk) 11:59, 20 March 2013 (UTC)
Amazon.cn seems to still be selling them here is one example (talk) user:Al83tito 14:38, 31 July 2013