Wikipedia in convenient book form? That'll be $47, please!

I was at the Barnes and Noble web site looking for a cheap widescreen-format DVD of James Mangold's Walk the Line.  Being in a hurry, i just typed in the title in the search line without specifying format, so I got DVDs, Blu-Rays, books, etc.  And here was an interesting title:  Accolades Received by Walk the Line.   Curious, I clicked on the title.  Here's the cover:



See that in the corner? it reads: HIGH QUALITY CONTENT by WIKIPEDIA ARTICLES.  Yes, that's right.  The entire book consists of material from Wikipedia.    How many pages' worth of wikipedia articles are in this book?  80.   How much does this publisher charge for a collection of Wikipedia articles?   $47 US.   Yep, that's right.  Figuring that some of the pages actually don't have content, that's about two bucks per page.  

Now, Alphascript Publishing, responsible for this and numerous other books containing Wikipedia content, has been around for a while.  I'm late to the game on this, and here's a nice little rant from three years ago about it.  Nevertheless, it was news to me: what a stroke of evil genius!   Take content that's free on the internet, bind it into a book, and sell it for a ridiculous amount of money.   (Did they come up with bottling water?)