On 12/28/2010 11:08 AM, Jan wrote:
> In
article,
Amy
> Guskin says...
>>
>>>> On Tue, 28 Dec 2010 00:31:41 -0500, jjs{at}xmission.com wrote
>> (in article):
>>
>>> On 12/27/2010 11:39 AM, Brandon Klassen wrote:
>>>> As a review for another one of those B5 Kindle items says...
>>>>
>>>> "This product is an advertisement for the print version,
>>>>
>>>> I should have paid more attention to what I was ordering.
This 5 book
>>>> series put out by J. Michael Straczynski ([...]) is great, one that
>>>> I'm proud to have on my shelf. When I saw this on the
kindle store, I
>>>> thought it was a great way to have the same information on the go.
>>>> When I read the title, I thought it was a reformatted/reorganized
>>>> version of the books I own. It is not. It is a 1000 word
excerpt (most
>>>> of which is taken up by an ad for the real book) that
includes just a
>>>> couple of questions and answers (contractually, they can not publish
>>>> the entire book as an e-book). It is fine as an ad, but I
don't think
>>>> they should charge for it. Having 5 different versions for
sale on the
>>>> kindle store is especially misleading.
>>>>
>>>> Bottom line: Go to the cafe press link and get the real
books if they
>>>> interest you (I'd give them 5 stars for any B5 fan). Stay away from
>>>> these ads. They aren't worth your money."
>>>
>>> I already have the printed version of the 5 books, I was just confused
>>> by this listing.  Thanks for the info.<<
>>
>> I noticed at the link you posted that it says in all caps in the title
>> listing, "EXCERPT."  I'm curious, did they maybe add
that after people
>> complained?  Was that missing when you ordered?
>>
>> Amy
>
> No, I'm pretty sure that it's been there the entire time.  I remember talking to
> Captain Jaclyn about it and she wanted to make sure that nobody thought they
> were getting the entire book for a buck.
>
> Jan
>

I didn't order them, just was curious about the possible value if any. 
But I don't recall seeing the word "excerpt" before now.  If it was 
there, I missed it.  Perhaps if the title started with "Excerpt from 
..." it would be more obvious.  Oh well.

What I was actually looking for was a book about theater makeup that I 
saw somewhere, which used G'Kar and some other B5 characters as examples.
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