Not worth it, or so it would seem
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Illustrations & Other Content Notes: black & white illustrations Pages: 108
ISBN 13: 9786134014311 ISBN 10: 6134014311
Publisher: Betascript Publishing Imprint: Betascript Publishing
Publication Date: 15/12/2010
It was retailing at £33.00, so I thought I'd see what other information I could find before I considered purchasing it.
I found this on Wikipedia under the names of the authors:
Alphascript Publishing sells free articles as expensive books
An Amazon.com book search on 9 June 2009 gives 1009 (6 August, gives 1,859) "books" from Alphascript Publishing. 1003 of the books are described as "by John McBrewster, Frederic P. Miller, and Agnes F. Vandome". They are called editors in the book listings. It seems the only content of the many books is free Wikipedia articles with no sign that these three people have contributed to them.
The articles are often poorly printed with features such as missing characters from foreign languages, and numerous images of arrows where Wikipedia had links. It appears much better to read the original articles for free at the Wikipedia website than paying a lot of money for what has been described as a scam or hoax. Advertising for the books at Amazon and elsewhere does not reveal the free source of all the content. It is only revealed inside the books which may satisfy the license requirements for republishing of Wikipedia articles.
As an example of the "care" given to the books, the book "History of Georgia (country)" is about the European country Georgia but has a cover image of Atlanta in the American state Georgia. The Wikipedia article History of Georgia (country) does not make such a comical blunder.
So I would suggest no one risks buying the CS book.
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