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LINGO MASTERY LANGUAGE BOOKS
WHO ARE THE REAL TIME AUTHORS?
WHERE IS THE PUBLISHER LOCATED IN REAL TIME?
Optical illusion scene from "Indiana Jones and the Lost Crusade"
I like to keep an inventory of books I have and acquire or dispose of. I generally log titles, authors, publication year, publishing house, and the city, state or province, or country in which the publisher is located. With digital publishing, this is a little more complicated when the book shows no publishing company or location in real time. However, I am usually able to track down both the publisher and city of publication.
Not so with Lingo Mastery. My search led me into a labyrinth of dead ends, that is, until I found a critical review of this issue on Reddit, where this blogger posted this question: Is this reddit user scamming $1,000,000 a year from amazon customers? This may not be an optical illusion, but what kind of illusion is Lingo Mastery? One of the comments on this Reddit post claims to have found that Lingo Mastery is actually published my Amazon itself. Is this true? If so, why conceal it if the publications are put together by real authors with legitimate linguistic formation, expertise, and experience?
Still, I decided to try to put the question to Amazon.ca and this is the note I sent them via their web email tool. We'll see what reply they will make.
"Hello. I've been purchasing books for years and I always find the headquarters of publishers, even when they are digital and at first there is only a website. I just bought 2 Lingo Mastery books but cannot find actual authors or their headquarters. They remain elusive. This is a red flag. Reddit has complained they are simulating authentic authorship and a fabricating reviews. This is against Amazon policy. These books show no real authors and the enterprise shows no real geographic location as headquarters. My complaint is that such an enterprise cannot be legitimate while concealing all real agency and faking reviews. What is Amazon going to do about this?"
It appears that this issue is merely one red flag uncovering the underbelly of our society in which the digital world and that of the web are rapidly falling under the influence of AI. An early sign was the challenge of identifying when a photo was faked with photo shop. Now, it's the entire domain of communication that is defying us to distinguish the difference between what is real and that which is only apparent.
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On these Blogger pages we explore TOPICS in our desire to respond to Jesus' call to walk with Him in our world as his missionary disciples empowered by the Holy Spirit to bring to humanity the Good News of the Father's love manifested and given in Jesus, the Divine Mercy. G.S.
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