India's premier online bookstore, Flipkart.com, as I just discovered, is selling a book purportedly written by me called Busy Bee 4 Teacher's Resource, published by Macmillan Education of the UK in 2003. The book is priced at Rs. 581.
Funny thing is this: I have never written any such book, nor do I have any written contract with Macmillan Education of the UK.
I have had two books published by Macmillan India, and both are available from Flipkart.com:
First: Antidote: Essays Against the Socialist Indian State, available here, for Rs. 189 in paperback, published by Macmillan India in 2000.
Second: Antidote 2: For Liberal Governance, published by Macmillan India in 2003, available here in paperback for Rs. 280. The title given by Flipkart.com is Antidote 2: Columns for Freedom. I wonder how they got this title, for this was rejected by the Macmillan editor, in favour of the tame one - For Liberal Governance.
I have written to Macmillan India and they have promised to look into the matter.
However, what I want to publicly state on this blog is that I disown the book published by Macmillan Education of the UK in 2003, under the title Busy Bee 4 Teacher's Resource.
Don't ever buy that book.
As a true teacher's resource I recommend my Free Your Mind: A Citizen's Guide to Political Economy, available free online in its second edition here. If anyone wants to publish this as a book, I would be happy to write a third edition. This second edition is now available in many languages, including Chinese, Arabic, Turkish, Russian, Kyrgyz and Portuguese.
This post is for the record.
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