Question About the Quality of a Book

[Wilkinson, C.]

Given the fact that there appears to be a sticker-style flash on the front
cover proclaiming "High quality content by Wikipedia articles", I'd give it
a miss.

C Wilkinson

On 7 May 2010 00:17, Leigh Kimmel <leighkimmel at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Greetings to everybody:
>
> I've got a bit of a problem, and any input would be helpful.
>
> While I was looking up another book to create a link in an essay, Amazon
> gave me a page for a new book on Nikolai Yezhov: _Nikolai Yezhov: NKVD,
> Great Purge, Maxim Gorky, Pseudonym, Bolshevik Revolution, Tsarist_ by
> Lambert M. Surhone (Editor), Mariam T. Tennoe (Editor), Susan F. Henssonow
> (Editor), published by Betascript Publishing.
>
> Does anybody know anything about this book, these authors, or this
> publisher? The fact that it is already out of stock a month after it came
> out makes me think it may be a Print on Demand book. This isn't necessarily
> a danger sign (there are some very good small presses and micropresses that
> use POD technology), but in combination with the product description that
> seems to be the first part of a much longer summary arbitrarily cut off at
> Amazon's word limit and the subtitle that looks more like a collection of
> keywords to draw search engines, I have to admit I'm seeing an awful lot of
> red flags.
>
> If this should somehow turn out to be a work that draws upon primary
> sources that haven't been used in previous English-language works, and its
> chief flaw is poor quality translation into English (or being written by
> non-native speakers without a thorough editing by a native speaker for
> idiomatic usage), then I'll consider trying to add it to my personal
> library, since it makes some interesting claims. However, if it's something
> tossed together from existing materials without any proper editing, I'd just
> as soon save my scarce funds for better quality works and stick with the
> biographies by Jansen and Getty.
>
> Thanks in advance.
> --
> Leigh Kimmel -- writer, artist, historian and bookseller
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