A book about Anime Music Videos?

[Corran]

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

[Qyot27]

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?

[Castor Troy]

Why does it cost $98?

[Rider4Z]

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?

[competitionbros]

LMAO. 100 Bucks. 288 pages of copy pasta.

[godix]

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...

[drewaconclusion]

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?

[Castor Troy]

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?

I confirm and deny nothing.

[Knowname]

Why does it cost $98?

obviously cuz $99 would be too much

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[godix]

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