Carmen Sandiego (character) book

[redhatladyfan]

So I was browsing the Barnes & Noble website looking for textbooks when I stumbled across this.

Overview - Carmen Sandiego (Character)
Product Details
Pub. Date: August 2010
Publisher: Alphascript Publishing
Format: Paperback , 76pp
ISBN-13: 9786130829681
ISBN: 613082968X

Synopsis
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Carmen Sandiego is a fictional character featured in a long-running edutainment series of the same name. As a criminal mastermind and the elusive nemesis of the ACME Detective Agency, Sandiego is the principal villain of the series and head of ACME's rival organization V.I.L.E. Most of her crimes involve spectacular and often impossible cases of theft. Her full name, according to Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? Treasures of Knowledge, is Carmen Isabella Sandiego. Carmen Sandiego is almost always portrayed as a hispanic woman with a red trench coat, a matching fedora and long brown hair, although her hair color was given to be "auburn" or "black" in some of the earliest games. Her fedora is often shown leaving her face in shadow and obscuring her eyes. When her eyes are visible, they are usually brown, although they were blue in Where on Earth is Carmen Sandiego? and in Carmen Sandiego Math Detective. In many appearances she also wears gray or black gloves.


Has anyone purchased this book? Is it even worth getting...

[Leonia]

Google tells me at best, it's some German company reprinting articles from various places on the web (mostly Wikipedia) for profit, and at worst, it's a scam.

Here's a blogpost that goes further about this whole thing with Alpha/Betascript Publishings.

[redhatladyfan]

I figured as much. haha Thanks