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From: Brian Drummond <brian@shapes.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: The Ultimate Beginner's Guide - what on earth?.....
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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