The New York Times ran a more detailed story a few years ago about a computer programmer somewhere in Southern California who had thousands of titles on Amazon

The New York Times ran a more detailed story a few years ago about a computer programmer somewhere in Southern California who had thousands of titles on Amazon written by a Perl script. As that article explained, certain large libraries buy just about any title published. It was effectively a scam to get these institutions to pony up a couple hundred dollars each for bound copies of Wikipedia copypasta.