Unlike the original poster, I don’t think this item falls under the heading of “fraud.” The term that comes to mind is “spam” and I think the market will sort things out.
In recent months a flood of so-called books have been appearing in Amazon's catalog. VDM Publishing's imprints Alphascript and Betascript Publishing have listed over 57,000 titles, adding at least 10,000 in the previous month alone. These books are simply collections of linked Wikipedia articles put into paperback form, at a cost of 40 cents a page or more. These books seem to be computer-generated…
via Slashdot News Story | Print-On-Demand Publisher VDM Infects Amazon.
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