Spam ebooks are invading the market

fljustice · Post by **fljustice** » Mon April 25th, 2011, 5:25 pm

Every heard of Manuel Ortiz Braschi? He's "published" over 3000 books on Kindle including some in the public domain like Alice in Wonderland but most are stolen articles. It seems that with Google going after content farms, the "writers" are moving to the Kindle to pedal their plagiarized wares. Interesting article:

http://www.publishingtrends.com/2011/03 ... e-swindle/

Margaret · Post by **Margaret** » Mon April 25th, 2011, 9:35 pm

I think I bought one of these, or something similar, a few months ago. It turned out to be just a printed version of a set of Wikipedia articles. I was disappointed, although not horrified, because I don't mind having it in a compact, printed format. But I don't think I'll be buying from that particular "publisher" again.

stu1883 · Post by **stu1883** » Tue April 26th, 2011, 9:39 am

I have also bought a cheap book from this bloke - he must be one of the most prolific plaigarists in modern times. Very poor material indeed.

fljustice · Post by **fljustice** » Tue April 26th, 2011, 2:15 pm

Wherever there is money to be made, the charlatans will invade...

Matt Phillips · Post by **Matt Phillips** » Tue April 26th, 2011, 5:24 pm

Isn't there a way to track him down through whatever payment system he uses? I would think Amazon would be able to put a stop to what he's doing.

EC2 · Post by **EC2** » Tue April 26th, 2011, 7:22 pm

And then there's Kindle scamming too
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/amazon-ki ... mers/47751