Yesterday I had my first book review published on Amazon. It is of a “Norwegian” Kindle edition of Jame Joyce’s Dubliners.

“Norwegian” because it is no translation at all. Someone simply took an online text and ran it through Google Translate. And they did so in a bunch of languages, among them French, Spanish, Danish and Finnish. The name of the “translator” changes on some “editions”, but the cover remains the same:

The book is still there, though my review had to be accepted before publication. I have reported the book to Amazon, so it might not hang around for long. But while it does, don’t buy it. I asked for a preview, and lost no money myself.

Still, a swindle is a swindle

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Update: The translator, A.P. Notche, has been rather busy lately. There are 799 hits on Amazon.com for a search on his name. He’s rather multilingual too.