Surfing A Beginners Guide

[surf patrol]

Sometimes people send things to be reviewed. I've just finished writing one for Surfing: A Beginners Guide third edition. You can read the review here if you are interested).

As I was having a look through the book I had a double take at the surfboard fin page. Is it me or is there more than a little similarity between the images in the book and the images I created for the fin section on this very site.

Here's the first one
Book image


SW image at https://surfing-waves.com/board/fins.htm


OK, pretty basic image, not really many places to go with this representation. Don't really have an issue with this one, and if it was just this image I would not have looked twice.

Here's the second.

Book image


SW image in the fin flex section


This one is remarkably similar. Almost exactly the same image.

Here's the third image

Book image


SW image


The legend has been swapped but the colours are exactly the same.

Is it me or are the book images blatant copies from this site?

Here's a snapshot of those two pages from back in 2007, courtesy of the wayback archive.

[oldmansurfer]

It's not the same images but perhaps copied from this site and altered to make them enough different

[waikikikichan]

For you UK folks, how do you translate “Ya bloody bastxxd” to American English ? Because that is what that writer is.
That right there is a blatant rip-off. They could have at least change the colors on the fin.

[jaffa1949]

Same in Aussie English, sending in the attack kangaroos!

[Big H]

LOL....you really can't plagiarise anymore......take a snippet of any suspect passage and google it....your true source will come up right away.

What is your next move SurfPatrol? Will you inform the publisher? The site that asked you to do the review?

[surf patrol]

What can you do? I'm not even surprised any more.
I asked the publisher for comment but I'm not going to do anything else apart from tut and move on

[RinkyDink]

What can you do? I'm not even surprised any more.
I asked the publisher for comment but I'm not going to do anything else apart from tut and move on

Xerox PARC.