Caution: "New" FrameMaker book available on Amazon

Question

I noticed this afternoon that a book with a promising title is available on Amazon:
Adobe FrameMaker For Beginners: FrameMaker Mastering From Being a Beginner to Pro
However, I suggest you read through the sample available in the Look Inside feature.

It appears to be some 49 pages of speech-to-text conversion, and nearly every paragraph has inaccurate descriptions of FrameMaker functionality. I found this gem on p9 of 49 after downloading the KindleUnlimited version of the book:

I found this troubling, as I've not got the Layout > Paragraph > Clothier in my Paragraph Dressmaker.
But on the plus side, the book is "only" USD $20!
 
Matt

Bob_Niland · Answer

Somewhat UNsurprisingly on this, Amazon itself is both Seller and Shipper. So much for product vetting on their part.

Doing some basic searches on the author name didn't promptly turn up any other publications (as a living person).

The whole thing looks a bit like an exercise in just how much money can be made testing the IQ of Amazon buyers.

…or it could be yet-another money-laundering scheme, but those are more often seen as real products offered at prices so preposterously high that no actual customer would fall for them.

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