Comment on Would you pay $62 for a Wikipedia article?Comments−samwillis16yWhat's really worrying is if you search for the "Editors" of the book there are over 17,000 book by them: http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3D...They must have made an automated system that creates these books and sells them on Amazon using print on demand.−ableal16yCurious. I thought of getting numbers to check rate of growth, if any.With the default 'Relevance' sorting, it's 17,761 (as of 18:44 WET, today).With any other sorting, it's 13,962.−ableal16yAaaaaand ... 23 days later (April 04 01:16:55 WEST) Relevance: 21,590 Results Others: 17,807 An increase of nearly 4k in a tad over 3 weeks, about 170 per day.By date, they seem to land in batches - Mar 19, Mar 14 ...−ableal16yAnother 11 days (Apr 15 12:22:48 WEST 2010) Relevance: 21,589 Results Others: 15,039 Curious, seems halted, with the second number down nearly 2800−ableal16ySeems Amazon put a stop to it (Fri May 7 10:34:58 WEST 2010) Relevance: 21,589 Others: 154 Huh, 154 ? Checking small print at bottom of results:This search may have been filtered to remove less relevant results. Click here to include these items in your resultsOK, clicking now lists 21,589, but nearly all of them say:Currently unavailable
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What's really worrying is if you search for the "Editors" of the book there are over 17,000 book by them: http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3D...
They must have made an automated system that creates these books and sells them on Amazon using print on demand.
Curious. I thought of getting numbers to check rate of growth, if any.
With the default 'Relevance' sorting, it's 17,761 (as of 18:44 WET, today).
With any other sorting, it's 13,962.
Aaaaaand ... 23 days later (April 04 01:16:55 WEST)
An increase of nearly 4k in a tad over 3 weeks, about 170 per day.By date, they seem to land in batches - Mar 19, Mar 14 ...
Another 11 days (Apr 15 12:22:48 WEST 2010)
Curious, seems halted, with the second number down nearly 2800Seems Amazon put a stop to it (Fri May 7 10:34:58 WEST 2010)
Huh, 154 ? Checking small print at bottom of results:This search may have been filtered to remove less relevant results. Click here to include these items in your results
OK, clicking now lists 21,589, but nearly all of them say:
Currently unavailable