A book about Anime Music Videos?

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A book about Anime Music Videos?

Postby Corran » Thu Dec 16, 2010 6:43 pm

What is this?
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/books/ ... 6130722135

The description seems to be a rip of the wikipedia article summary on amvs (Even the cover mentions that it contains "High Quality Content by Wikipedia articles").
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anime_music_video
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Re: A book about Anime Music Videos?

Postby Qyot27 » Thu Dec 16, 2010 7:15 pm

I've seen weird stuff like that posted on Amazon too that seem to just be a list of Y characters from X given series.

I'm partially inclined to think this is some sort of troll. A price tag of $98? 288 pages? The publishing house is named VDM?
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Re: A book about Anime Music Videos?

Postby Castor Troy » Thu Dec 16, 2010 7:17 pm

Why does it cost $98? :shock:
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Re: A book about Anime Music Videos?

Postby Rider4Z » Thu Dec 16, 2010 7:37 pm

Corran wrote:The description seems to be a rip of the wikipedia article summary on amvs (Even the cover mentions that it contains "High Quality Content by Wikipedia articles").
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anime_music_video

did you edit the popularity section of this page yourself, mr. troy?
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Re: A book about Anime Music Videos?

Postby competitionbros » Thu Dec 16, 2010 7:49 pm

LMAO. 100 Bucks. 288 pages of copy pasta.
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Re: A book about Anime Music Videos?

Postby godix » Thu Dec 16, 2010 8:13 pm

It's a, well scam is overly harsh but kinda like that. I looked up VDM Publishing. Quote from their site: "The main activity of VDM Publishing House Ltd. is to acquire scientific manuscripts (diploma and master theses, dissertations and postdoctoral theses) of academic authors worldwide written mainly in English and German."

In other words, they're really tiny, really small time, and focus on printing things that have very very limited public interest. If I had to guess, someone thought 'Hey, if I cut and paste wikipedia into a book & sell it for $100, I only need to sell 5 copies to cover my christmas shopping budget!' Then they went out and looked for published used to dealing with small limited run printings.

Also of note, B&N (and Amazon too) have a program where you can, basically, be a self published author. Put your piece of fanfiction crap on B&N, charge a buck or two for an ebook of it, split the profit with B&N. While this book isn't under that program (it's ebooks only), that should at least tell you that just because you see something on B&N does not mean it's big time...
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Re: A book about Anime Music Videos?

Postby drewaconclusion » Thu Dec 16, 2010 10:31 pm

Rider4Z wrote:
Corran wrote:The description seems to be a rip of the wikipedia article summary on amvs (Even the cover mentions that it contains "High Quality Content by Wikipedia articles").
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anime_music_video

did you edit the popularity section of this page yourself, mr. troy?

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Re: A book about Anime Music Videos?

Postby Castor Troy » Thu Dec 16, 2010 11:46 pm

drewaconclusion wrote:
Rider4Z wrote:
Corran wrote:The description seems to be a rip of the wikipedia article summary on amvs (Even the cover mentions that it contains "High Quality Content by Wikipedia articles").
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anime_music_video

did you edit the popularity section of this page yourself, mr. troy?

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Re: A book about Anime Music Videos?

Postby Knowname » Fri Dec 17, 2010 12:24 am

Castor Troy wrote:Why does it cost $98? :shock:

obviously cuz $99 would be too much :x

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Re: A book about Anime Music Videos?

Postby godix » Fri Dec 17, 2010 12:29 am

The post button is not your friend, you should not hit it more than once. Your friends you can continue to beat senseless though.
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Re: A book about Anime Music Videos?

Postby JudgeHolden » Fri Dec 17, 2010 1:47 am

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Re: A book about Anime Music Videos?

Postby LittleAtari » Fri Dec 17, 2010 5:03 am

I looked up the authors. Apparently there are quite a few random books like this using 'high quality wikipedia entries'
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Re: A book about Anime Music Videos?

Postby OtakuGray » Fri Dec 17, 2010 6:49 pm

Other than a scam, what about an actual book based around amvs? Is that even possible o_O? Theres tons of books on pirating so i can't see amvs as any worse of a medium to read about...
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Re: A book about Anime Music Videos?

Postby Knowname » Sat Dec 18, 2010 1:40 am

godix wrote:The post button is not your friend, you should not hit it more than once. Your friends you can continue to beat senseless though.

the problem is my connection actually. it's like a vortex of blorps

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Re: A book about Anime Music Videos?

Postby JaddziaDax » Sat Dec 18, 2010 5:06 am

OtakuGray wrote:Other than a scam, what about an actual book based around amvs? Is that even possible o_O? Theres tons of books on pirating so i can't see amvs as any worse of a medium to read about...



here it's not entirely only on AMVs but he did write an entire book...
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