At 09:07 24/12/2004 +1000, Jacques Guy wrote:
23/12/2004 6:26:17 PM, jean-yves artero <jyartero@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Same for me; tried to order it used, of course no news; not seen > elsewhere, IIRC; could be > some dead project, sometimes books are displayed before they are > published
It sounds like the most likely explanation. [...]
It's very tempting, but I'm not so certain - why (apparently) announce the paperback release first if it was from a well-known publisher (Robson Books are part of Chrysalis Group, which isn't exactly small)? And why would it use an ISBN number in another company's range?
If I knew how to do a reverse ISBN search (not to the product, but just to the barcode owner's range), I could (probably) just ask the real publisher. So many databases, so little time. :-o
Or else, I have a conspiracty theory: someone (Amazon, Robson Books, ...?) has planted this entry to find out how much interest there would be in such a book.
There's always the "secret database signature" theory: that Amazon might add some fake books to its database in order to track which other web companies are ripping their content off. I recently read about how the Ordnance Survey was able to catch a company illegally selling their maps by adding some non-existent roads to a disused air-force base (IIRC), which amounts to much the same thing.
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