From: David G. <dg...@gm...> - 2012-11-25 09:35:01
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On 23 November 2012 10:49, Vivek Menon <vi...@pa...> wrote: > My name is Vivek Menon and I work for Packt, a UK based publishing company > specializing in publishing books based on Information Technology (I.T). We > are currently engaged in promoting our latest book on LMMS. Packt have a habit of spamming every open source project they possibly can. The model appears to be: 1. get a lump of text written by anybody at all 2. put it out as an ebook 3. the book is terrible 4. nobody else gets paid. With 5. unverifiable claims of donations to the projects in question. I have received emails after writing a *blog post* on some random geeky topic asking if I would be interested in writing an ebook on the topic. Not after looking up Packt on the web, I'm not. I file these requests in my spam now. I suggest nobody take Packt up on this offer. - d. |