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About Open Watcom's Debugger WD (Announce)

posted by Arjay, 20.12.2012, 06:21

> > Btw, apparently there exists a book about the hx dos extender:
> > http://www.amazon.com/HX-DOS-Extender-Othniel-Hermes/dp/6200954720
> >
> > I didn't buy it and don't know what it contains - does somebody know
> if
> > it is serious?
> I hate to be cynical, but it seems like a quick money grab. The guy seems
> to have tons of other "books", all overpriced.
As of December 2011 he's apparently written 3651 books which sounds like a lot until you learn that 3 of his colleagues have apparently collectively managed to publish 180707 "books" between 2009 and Dec 2011. Another 5 folks 356765 "books". So his output seems somewhat lacking in comparism.

> "the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from
> Wikipedia or other free sources online" ... "52 pages"
There appear to be 2082 apparent other works of plagiarism by Othniel Hermes. Note the release dates doesn't he turn them out fast although as above he's not as fast as his colleagues. I also guess some of his titles are for specialist markets, so there is more limited demand

Other people have also wondered who this alleged amazing author ^H^H^H^H^H^H duplicator of content is. Personally I don't believe that person is likely to even exist.... but I could be wrong.

It would appear that the organisation behind this book are VDM Publishing based in Saarbrücken who I noted appear to have an alleged track record of duplicating content from Wikipedia under various publishing house names and author names to the extent that there is now a table in Wikipedia covering this apparent output !

Complete thread:

• About Open Watcom's Debugger WD - Japheth, 19.12.2012, 09:55 (Announce)
  • About Open Watcom's Debugger WD - Rugxulo, 19.12.2012, 21:01
    • About Open Watcom's Debugger WD - Arjay, 20.12.2012, 06:21
    • About Open Watcom's Debugger WD - RayeR, 21.12.2012, 02:45
  • About Open Watcom's Debugger WD - DOS386, 20.12.2012, 04:05