Sustainable Energy Pirates

I'm upset to discover that some criminal types have gone to considerable lengths to make and sell fake paperback versions of Sustainable Energy - without the hot air on amazon marketplace. This page shows photographs of an example pirate paperback alongside genuine paperbacks.

If anyone has been sold one of these fakes, we urge you please to (a) ask amazon for your money back; (b) complain to amazon about the 'marketplace' criminals.

Side-by-side comparison

The pirate book is roughly A4-size.

Front cover - pirate book on the left, genuine (second printing) on the right	Back cover - pirate book on the left, genuine (second printing) on the right

The pirate book looks desperately ugly. [Of course, according to some reviewers the genuine book looks ugly too!] It has very low quality transparent paper. The colour images in the pirate book look awful. The text has unfinished bits, and at the foot of almost every page it says "Draft 2.1.5".

Example pirate book internal page

Spines of books: from left to right - Genuine hardback book, second printing (white) Pirate paperback book (white) Genuine paperback book, first printing (white) Genuine paperback book, second printing (white) Genuine paperback book, third printing (blue) Genuine hardback book, second printing (white)

For the record

Here is what the genuine books look like.

Third printing front cover (with AA battery for scale).	Third printing back cover (with AA battery for scale).

Second printing back cover.
First printing front cover.	First printing back cover.