Message-ID: <alpine.NEB.2.00.1103090819180.12710@panix3.panix.com>
From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Charles Ess <charles.ess@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Air-L] book announcement
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2011 08:21:00 -0500 (EST)
This sounds excellent, as far as it goes, of course; the problem arises if one tries to get the entire book. There are a lot of open source academic publications online; I'm surprised that Wiley et. al. charges so much, given this. POD is not all that expensive, by the way, as Lulu and other venues show. Thanks, Alan On Wed, 9 Mar 2011, Charles Ess wrote: > well said and to the point - exactly. > That said: what is to prevent anyone from contacting an author whose name > s/he notices in a table of contents and asking for a copy of a given chapter > or article? > Without speaking for anyone else - this is a practice I engage in, as both > requester and sender. It is also true in my experience that most authors are > (generally) happy to respond positively to such requests, most especially > under the sorts of circumstances you describe. Obviously, we want our work > to be read and critically evaluated - not sequestered. > An advantage of this practice, in my experience, is that it sometimes > fosters helpful dialogue and creative collaboration between scholars who > otherwise will not likely meet. > Not an ideal solution, perhaps, but perhaps not also such a bad one? > > My two bits - and please keep throwing in yours! > - charles > > [...] _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/