Don't buy this DR e-cookbook, it is shamelessly plagiarised!

Chirimoya

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If you're looking for an ebook of Dominican recipes, please don't buy this one.
Aunt Clara of Dominicancooking.com recently discovered that the recipes were plagiarised from her blog and has complained to Amazon.
Why should someone whose only skill is copy-paste make money off someone else's genuine expertise and hard work?

Note: I am only posting this link to invite you to write one-star reviews denouncing it for plagiarism.
Don't even think of buying it.
https://www.amazon.com/Ultimate-Dominican-Cookbook-Delicious-Homestyle-ebook/dp/B01IA6FCCQ/

There is another ebook available, called "How to Cook Dominican Style" by Mari N??ez. Buy that one!
https://www.amazon.com/Cook-Dominican-Style-Mari-N??ez-ebook/dp/B00ACUT4Q4/
 

Chirimoya

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Aunt Clara should sue them, disgraceful.

She's taken it up with them. It is easier to get them for breach of photographic copyright, which isn't the case here.
If you look at the cover pic, it is not even of a Dominican dish.
The recipes have been tweaked by leaving out random snippets, rendering the recipes meaningless, but apparently enough for them to get away with it.
"Gordon Rock" is probably fictitious - the author pic is a stock photo of a chef, and the publication mentioned in the bio (Food and Wine Magazine) has never heard of him.
Whoever is behind this has produced a large number of similarly bodged recipe ebooks being sold for a low price to boost them in the rankings over genuine authors like Mari N??ez.
 

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If you're looking for an ebook of Dominican recipes, please don't buy this one.
Aunt Clara of Dominicancooking.com recently discovered that the recipes were plagiarised from her blog and has complained to Amazon.
Why should someone whose only skill is copy-paste make money off someone else's genuine expertise and hard work?

Note: I am only posting this link to invite you to write one-star reviews denouncing it for plagiarism.
Don't even think of buying it.
https://www.amazon.com/Ultimate-Dominican-Cookbook-Delicious-Homestyle-ebook/dp/B01IA6FCCQ/

There is another ebook available, called "How to Cook Dominican Style" by Mari N??ez. Buy that one!
https://www.amazon.com/Cook-Dominican-Style-Mari-N??ez-ebook/dp/B00ACUT4Q4/

Oops. One is not supposed write a review if they have not read the book. That is as dishonest as the plagiarism itself.
Der Fish
 

Chirimoya

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By engaging in dishonesty and fraud they don't deserve the courtesy.
You can assess the quality of the book by downloading a preview or using the "look inside" function.
That's enough to establish it's a ripoff.
 

Derfish

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By engaging in dishonesty and fraud they don't deserve the courtesy.
You can assess the quality of the book by downloading a preview or using the "look inside" function.
That's enough to establish it's a ripoff.

If the reviewer says that that is all they read of the book that would be legal, but to pretend one has read the book if they haven't is in the same level of dishonesty as the original plagiarism
Or one could review it and say that there are charges of plagiarism against the book, That too would be valid.
Der Fish
 

Chirimoya

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The reviewers are not pretending to have read the book, but they are accusing it of being plagiarised.
Clara did acquire it via Kindle Unlimited and was able to see the entire product.
The positive reviews are obviously fake, like the one that says every recipe is "beautifully illustrated" when there is only one image in the entire book.

There is also a paperback print version, I only just noticed.
 

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You guys did a fine job outing that crapweasel.

Well done!
 

Chirimoya

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You guys did a fine job outing that crapweasel.

Well done!

Thank you. It appears to be a large operation publishing recipe books using plagiarised material.
The same "author" has put his name to cookbooks from several countries using exactly the same formula, with basic errors that expose their ignorance (e.g. "The Ultimate Morocco Cookbook - Live The Morocco Culture: Over 25 Different Types of Morocco Food That You Can't Resist" - Morocco is not an adjective, it should be "Moroccan") plus several other thematic cookbooks (cancer fighting, meatballs, waffles) probably all lifted from blogs on those subjects.
Amazon should be wiser to this sort of crap.