Monday, July 11, 2011

Alphascript Publishing

I'm horrified that someone has the brilliant idea to bind 80 pages of wikipedia content and sell it for $40. I'm impressed that someone used the terms of free documentation licensing to make a buck, but even with a giant medallion on the cover stating that it's 'quality content from wikipedia', I think I feel bad for the first dozen people who shell out for this. Don't I recall a nice little pocket wikipedia device running from a sd-card priced about $100? Curiously, the publisher's office is in Mauritius (a tiny island country off the coast of Africa), never suspected that to be a hotbed of literary creativity.

I hope their 'portfolio' includes more than just reprinting free content at high prices...

Philosophy
Nearly all media worldwide – such as newspapers, magazines, TV – use internet for their researches and as a basis for their texts. This is exactly what Alphascript publishing does. And we go even further: with the Wikipedia-texts at free disposal we create books on interesting topics.
There is hardly another platform for quick and better processing of information than by Wikipedia – and this is too for the benefit of the Alphascript publishing-readers who want to be informed on a specific subject. Of course you can have online everything free of charge, but for good reason you have decided for a book. Alphascript publishing is internet in form of a book. There can hardly be a faster process.

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