Chapter 1: Stacks
Chapter 2: Reverse Polish Notation
Chapter 3: Australia
Chapter 4: Penal transportation
Chapter 5: Slavery
Chapter 6: Prostitution
Chapter 7: Pornography
(and I wasn't even trying)
The full book title is: "Stack (data structure): Abstract Data Type, Data Structure, Friedrich L. Bauer, Charles Leonard Hamblin High-level Programming Language, Lisp".
Go to the Wikipedia Stack article, and just read the article's links in order: computer science, LIFO, abstract data type, data structure, Friedrich L. Bauer, Charles Leonard Hamblin, high level languages, array, linked-list, overrun, Lisp, etc. It looks like they are doing very little editing -- maybe an automated pruning algorithm.
Anyone know of other interesting uses of Wikipedia?
It's a little odd that they'd state it so clearly on the cover, though, since it seems as though they're trying to exploit a knowledge gap in their target market.
They must have made an automated system that creates these books and sells them on Amazon using print on demand.
With the default 'Relevance' sorting, it's 17,761 (as of 18:44 WET, today).
With any other sorting, it's 13,962.
Relevance: 21,590 Results
Others: 17,807
By date, they seem to land in batches - Mar 19, Mar 14 ...
Amazon(book publisher in question) != Wikipedia
Annually, millions of works are written worldwide in the research industry. Enterprises and scientists would be especially interested in these ideas; nevertheless, up to today, most of this work is shelved as a result of high costs. Betascript Publishing specializes in the publication of such works and uses commitment and the latest technology in order to make the invaluable work of such researchers available worldwide, quickly and efficiently.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Pepsi-Carbonated-Pharmacy-Oldfield-T...
http://www.wissenmedia.de/wissenmediaverlag/verlagsprogramm/... http://pediapress.com/
I have been willing to pay for printed copies of freely-available digital material. I bought Dive Into Python 3. I even bought a pair of Lulu-printed copies of Why's Poignant Guide to Ruby.
Repackaged Wikipedia articles, however, is pushing it a liiitle too far. Especially given the price. Especially given how unclear the listing is about what's even in there (as Psyonic said, the stack article doesn't fill 144 pages).
Some books (eg, Googled by Ken Auletta) require interviews with over 50 people - something away and beyond ripping off web content.