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Synopis is useless
You can't buy a book based on it. It's an advertising pitch which is not entirely truthful. I know, I've bought enough tech books online. You can't judge a book by it's cover.

I can see why certain publishers don't want this. It would reveal the fraudulent books out there that barely make it past false advertising laws.

For example I've seen books advertising to be indepth detail on Active Directory but when you read it doesn't ever go beyone creating users and groups. To me that's blatant false advertising but it's aguable what indepth really is. Now if I had the ability to do a search on phrases I'd eliminate this book from a list to purchase.
Posted by: voska   Posted on: 10/28/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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I coulda used soemething like that to write a book paper easily  jmills@... | 10/25/05
Did he really say that?  Richard Flude | 10/26/05
No ...  Plain Logic | 10/26/05
Ok, so it applies to everyone BUT MS  BitTwiddler | 10/26/05
huh?  IT Scion | 10/26/05
Kind of  voska | 10/26/05
Exactly right  tic swayback | 10/26/05
There is one exception  osreinstall | 10/26/05
Who buys the books  voska | 10/27/05
Advantage of the second mover  tic swayback | 10/27/05
Nice try you two.  osreinstall | 10/27/05
I think you're confused here  tic swayback | 10/27/05
I don't think so  osreinstall | 10/27/05
Actually, I'm right here  tic swayback | 10/27/05
I love self confidence Tic, but you have to be pragmatic.  osreinstall | 10/27/05
Actually, I think Google is ahead  tic swayback | 10/27/05
Google is only ahead on search and me too at everything else.  osreinstall | 10/27/05
Synopis is useless  voska | 10/28/05
I don't think so, because they offer it.  osreinstall | 10/28/05
Yes he didn't...  BitTwiddler | 10/26/05
Public domain in DRM'd eBooks?  Nigel Johnstone | 10/26/05
"Do they continue to charge?"  voice_of_all_reason | 10/26/05
Just because it is in the public domain ...  ShadeTree | 10/26/05
Do people pay for Beethoven sheet music?  Rodney Davis | 10/26/05
Public Domain means you can do whatever you want with it  tic swayback | 10/26/05

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