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Posted: 9 July 2010 - 11:41 AM                                    
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I just saw in Barns and Noble a book called MacGyver it's in paper back and it came out in 2009. it's by Frederic P. Miller and two other men.

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MacGyver is an American action/adventure television series created by Lee David Zlotoff and executively produced by Henry Winkler and John Rich that aired on ABC. Seven seasons were produced, all of which were broadcast by the ABC Network in the United States and various other networks abroad from 1985 to 1992. The series was filmed in Los Angeles during Seasons 1, 2 and 7, and in Vancouver, Canada from Seasons 3-6. The show's final episode aired on May 21, 1992 on ABC. The story arc of MacGyver follows the laid-back, extremely resourceful secret agent Angus MacGyver, played by Richard Dean Anderson. He prefers non-violent conflict resolution wherever possible and refuses to carry or use a gun. MacGyver works as a problem solver for the fictional Phoenix Foundation in Los Angeles. Educated as a scientist with a background as a Bomb Disposal Technician/EOD in Vietnam ("Countdown"), and from a fictional United States government agency, the Department of External Services (DXS), he is used as a resourceful agent able to solve a range of problems along with his ever-present Swiss army knife.



 
                                                                     
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Posted: 9 July 2010 - 05:40 PM                                    
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You saw this in a store? or online? If in a store did you open it to see what it was about?




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Posted: 9 July 2010 - 07:45 PM                                    
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It's a hoax, folks.

I copied this from Wikipedia:

Alphascript Publishing sells free articles as expensive books

An Amazon.com book search on 9 June 2009 gives 1009 (6 August, gives 1,859) "books" from Alphascript Publishing.[nan 1] 1003 of the books are described as "by John McBrewster, Frederic P. Miller, and Agnes F. Vandome". They are called editors in the book listings. It seems the only content of the many books is free Wikipedia articles with no sign that these three people have contributed to them.
The articles are often poorly printed with features such as missing characters from foreign languages, and numerous images of arrows where Wikipedia had links. It appears much better to read the original articles for free at the Wikipedia website than paying a lot of money for what has been described as a scam or hoax. Advertising for the books at Amazon and elsewhere does not reveal the free source of all the content. It is only revealed inside the books which may satisfy the license requirements for republishing of Wikipedia articles.





 
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Posted: 9 July 2010 - 07:59 PM                                    
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oh geesh... I just put "Alphascript Publishing" into Google. Seems like they are rip off artists alright.




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Posted: 10 July 2010 - 09:38 AM                                    
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oh sheesh I wish I knew this before hand I already bought it through Barns and Noble, I had to per-order the book.
I guess once I get it I'll post some sample pages up.



 
                                                                     
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Posted: 10 July 2010 - 10:08 AM                                    
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yeah do that. So we can see exactly what the quality etc is. wink.gif




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Posted: 11 July 2010 - 02:53 AM                                    
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what I may do is scan some pages and then send it back to get my money back.



 
                                                                     
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Posted: 13 July 2010 - 09:14 AM                                    
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Didn't get to scan it cause the lady told me not to open it up, but once I got to the book store I asked if I could look at it, and she let me, everything in the book from MacGyver, to SWiss army knifes is from the net, the printing it's all too good, the words in the book is too small for someone to read, the photo's are from the net, overall this book is one big scam and it costs almost 50 dollars to buy the book. i told the lady at the book store to report this book and the company, she said she could. knowing my luck she will not.

*Side note I think Rick needs to let know that this book is scamming people he in turn will let the creater Lee David Zlotoff know so he can do something about it.



 
                                                                     
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