From: Brian Drummond <brian@shapes.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: The Ultimate Beginner's Guide - what on earth?.....
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2020 17:22:22 -0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <rsafse$7k9$1@dont-email.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 5d62360e-c0d0-4cbb-9a1f-747c2f5a58cen@googlegroups.com
On Tue, 01 Dec 2020 05:50:41 -0800, John McCabe wrote:
> Has anyone come across this:
>
> https://www.amazon.co.uk/ADA-Ultimate-Beginners-Guide-Programming/dp/
B08N3F32VB/ref=sr_1_4?
crid=32UJ2UP8UQ7XG&dchild=1&keywords=ada+programming&qid=1606830277&s=books&sprefix=ada+pr%2Cstripbooks%2C151&sr=1-4
>
> It looks like complete nonense from Amazon's "Look Inside" feature!
A little bit of digging finds a bunch of related books not just by her
but also other "authors" all with "MEM LNC" on the cover.
Here's 2 with apparently identical chapter headings... by "emma william"
and "john bach"
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Learning-Developing-Games-Unity-Programming/dp/
B08M2GS2Z4/ref=sr_1_4
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08BW5Y6MY/ref=sspa_dk_detail_6
Even the "Who this book is for" section is identical between them.
Goodness only knows how Emma's one got TWO stars!
Searching Amazon for "MEM LNC" shows 291 books, apparently evenly split
between Kpop fan books (?) sold as notebooks (so presumably empty) and
programming texts.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?
k=MEM+LNC&i=stripbooks&page=5&qid=1609088394&ref=sr_pg_5
Perhaps auto-translation has been used to defeat plagiarism detectors?
Anyway this looks like a sizeable scam and not just one failed self-
publish.
Reporting to Amazon...
-- Brian
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2020-12-01 13:50 The Ultimate Beginner's Guide - what on earth? John McCabe
2020-12-01 15:24 ` AdaMagica
2020-12-01 21:02 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2021-01-02 23:27 ` mgr
2020-12-01 16:16 ` Luke A. Guest
2020-12-01 16:17 ` Luke A. Guest
2020-12-02 9:11 ` AdaMagica
2020-12-01 19:17 ` Jerry Petrey
2020-12-01 20:23 ` John McCabe
2020-12-27 17:22 ` Brian Drummond [this message]
2021-02-27 23:41 ` John McCabe
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