Book review

[martha noyes]

http://www.chrisrand.com/blog/index.php/2010/02/27/odd-tale-alphascript-publishing-betascript-publishing/  explains the book's publishers.

And if you google "betascript" you'll see from their own website that they're simply reformatting Wikipedia and the links associated with entries.

It's too bad Amazon, or any other bookseller, sells their product. 

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: John Sullivan, Ph.D. 
  To: David Wright 
  Cc: Nahuat-l 
  Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 3:20 PM
  Subject: Re: [Nahuat-l] Book review


  David,
  You got punked!
  John


  On Apr 21, 2010, at 7:39 PM, David Wright wrote:


    Estimados listeros:

    I recently ordered a book from Amazon with a promising (albeit choppy) title: “Vocabulario trilingue: Spanish language, Manuscript, Antonio de Nebrija, Nahuatl, Newberry Library”, edited by Lambert M. Surhone, Miriam T. Timpledon, and Susan F. Marseken (Lexington: Betascript Publishing, 2010). The cost was $67 U.S.

    I have this book in my hands as I write. Page 1 has a very brief Wikipedia article about Ayer ms. 1478, a manuscript copy of Nebrija’s Spanish-Latin dictionary, with a translation of each entry into Nahuatl. There is nothing else in the book regarding this manuscript. The rest of the content consists of Wikipedia articles on: “Spanish language,” “Manuscript,” “Antonio de Nebrija,” “Nahuatl,” “Newberry Library,” “Chicago,” “Illinois,” “Cuneiform script,” “Inscription,” “Typewriter,” and “Manuscript format.”

    Strange, isn’t it? Fortunately Amazon is letting me return it. I thought I should let you folks know before you make the same mistake I did.

    Saludos,

    David Wright
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