Books that are simply Wikipedia articles

[mlady_rebecca]

For those who hate the fact that we catalog books that are simply Wikipedia articles, I thought this may be of interest:

Amazon Bans Publishing Public Domain Content

http://www.mediabistro.com/appnewser/...

P.S. If there is a better category for this, feel free to move it. It seemed to be something of general interest to Librarians.

[Lobstergirl]

Interesting. A couple months ago I noticed that my library had actually bought one of those, which surprised me. (But then they also buy a lot of absolutely abysmal self-published dreck, which also surprises me. I thought library budgets were shrinking.)

[Liesje Leest]

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34... This book is listed as been written by Kate Jacobs who wrote The Friday Night Knitting Club. However, it's not, it is written by someone with the same name.

edit: eehh I had two tabs open, one I wanted to read and one I wanted to comment on, and now I posted in the wrong topic...my brain :S

[Gerd]

Corrected, do you know if she's this Kate Jacobs?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Jacobs

[Liesje Leest]

Gerd wrote: "Corrected, do you know if she's this Kate Jacobs?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Jacobs"

I think so! This is what I found after some google-ing
http://www.answers.com/topic/kate-jac... That mentions the singer you linked to also writing the book.