On Amazon, the worrying business of counterfeit books

One fine morning in July, David Flanagan, a Tesla engineer in Washington State, made a startling discovery. By receiving a copy of his latest book, JavaScript. The Definitive Guide (O’Reilly Media), ordered on Amazonhe is surprised by several defects. “The cover is poorly printed, the paper is thicker, the ink is rubbing off on my fingers, and entire chapters are missing”, he confides. Very quickly, he realizes that he holds in his hands a counterfeit version of his book. A few days earlier, 8000 kilometers away, the Frenchman Aurélien Géron, residing in Auckland, in New Zealanddrew a similar conclusion for his textbook Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn, Keras and TensorFlow.

Looking for comparable testimonials on the social network Twitterthe two men (published by the same publisher) then come across a very popular publication by a certain François Chollet, who denounces “the worrying business of counterfeit