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Zzap!64 "Book"?
Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2011 9:04 pm
by Iain
Just happened to type zzap64 into the Amazon search engine and this came up:
Zzap!64
WTF? Taken from Wikipedia articles according to the cover, but also covers 360 magazines? Very strange.
Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2011 9:10 pm
by gordon
Um... I think we may have switched to an alternate universe...
And £27 for 84 pages! That's harsh.
Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2011 9:24 pm
by Iain
Yeah, seems to be a print on demand... of Wikipedia articles? Who has more money than sense and wants to buy it to see what's in it?
Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2011 10:36 pm
by andy vaisey
Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2011 6:16 am
by relentless
Full story here -
http://www.chrisrand.com/blog/index.php ... ublishing/
At first I thought you blokes were pulling our legs with an April Fools
Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2011 1:05 pm
by andy vaisey
Actually, it's given me an idea...
Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2011 9:53 pm
by Iain
I'd buy that for a dollar Andy!
Interesting blog article and comments. Is the purpose of it all to trick some libraries into buying them. With 1000's of "books" on demand, I guess they must get a few orders from people.
Re an April's Fool. Saying there was a real Zzap book coming out for an April's Fool would be just too cruel! Hopefully Roger and Co will do a Newsfield book at least some time...
Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2011 10:02 pm
by Lloyd Mangram
The idea of someone typing in "Zzap!64" on Amazon is also quite intruiging to say the least.
Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2011 10:25 pm
by Mayhem
Yeah, I've seen a ton of these "wiki" books on eBay...
Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2011 9:26 pm
by Sixteen Plus
Cheaper to buy it new
Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2011 10:15 pm
by andy vaisey
Sixteen Plus wrote:
Cheaper to buy it new
\o/
Complete sense!
