[Air-L] book announcement

[Steve Jones]

Some - not all - publishers do provide, among other things, copyediting, layout and design, marketing, publicity, and in some cases (particularly journals, but sometimes also handbooks and reference books) funds that allow us to support students. 

It would be interesting to know whether academic libraries are keen on purchasing e-books. Does anyone have any insight or data? They're certainly comfortable purchasing licenses to electronic versions of journals, but how about books?

Thanks,

Steve

On Mar 9, 2011, at 8:17 AM, Michael Gurstein wrote:

> Since the Internet and ICTs overall reduce the cost of information/text
> reproduction, storage and distribution to very close to zero and the
> content/reviewing/editing is almost all done by volunteer labour, I'm
> wondering what the value added is of "academic publishers/publishing"...
> whether for "Handbooks" or journals or...?
> 
> M
> 
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> [mailto:air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Alex Kuskis
> Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2011 11:02 AM
> To: 'Alan Sondheim'; 'Charles Ess'
> Cc: 'Air list'
> Subject: Re: [Air-L] book announcement
> 
> 
> FWIW, having worked for John Wiley as a Manager of Trade & Professional
> Books for several years, I'm not the slightest bit surprised by their
> pricing. Even if it's about the last book publisher still owned by its
> original founding family rather than a media conglomerate, their only
> commitment to scholarship is to make money from it.......Alex 
> 
> Alex Kuskis, PhD
> Adjunct Professor
> MA Program in Communication & Leadership
> School of Professional Studies
> Gonzaga University
> http://mcluhangalaxy.wordpress.com/about/ 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Alan Sondheim
> Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2011 8:21 AM
> To: Charles Ess
> Cc: Air list
> Subject: Re: [Air-L] book announcement
> 
> 
> 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
>> 
>> 
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