Book about Chris BUT not by Chris

[vivienne]

I was astounded to find on our local auction site a book about Chris Rea for sale, cost NZ$70. The book is published by an outfit called Alphascript Publishing and they are selling the book about Chris on the internet and through other book outlets?

It is not a cheap book and I would think true fans of Chris would be upset to find the content is collected through Wikipedia information and has no input from Chris.

I would think Chris and his management would not be pleased to see this happening and I wonder whether they know about this?

[Jim M]

Thanks Vivienne
Hopefully someone knows something about this.
It sounds like this publisher just gleams thing online and writes a book.
Somehow I doubt C.R. see's a dime from this !
Jim

[vivienne]

When you check out the book it says there are 78 pages. I wonder where they get all the info to fill 78 pages? It also looks like they only print the book when you request it as per the piece below.

I suggest taking a look at Google for this company and read the comments and blogs before parting with any money on ths book.

Title: Chris Rea
Author: Alphascript Publishing
Publisher: Alphascript Publishing
Creator: Frederic P. Miller (Editor), Agnes F. Vandome (Editor), John McBrewster (Editor)
Media: Books
Format: Paperback (Print-on-Demand)
Language: English
Page Count: 78

[elangelo]

Oh, just look at the cover! A microphone, not even a guitar. I'm surprised to see that anybody can even think of making such product...

[ann268]

Couldn't find the book, I found something about the "compagny", it's a firm who uses Internet for finding material and print a book from this material....Lot of money for free material!
Link:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VDM_Publishing

Ann