[lbo-talk] FYI - A Treasure Of Online Academic Books

[Mike Beggs]

I think this might be a sign of things to come in academic publishing
rather than a brief window of opportunity. I noticed all these brand
new Routledge and Palgrave book pdfs showing up a few months ago and
assumed authors were passing their proofs around. But then I realised
where they were coming from when my library signed up for the Palgrave
and Routledge ebook collections. They make no effort at protecting
them. There might be a watermark but I imagine it's easy to get rid
of. I guess they make the vast bulk of their money from library buying
anyway so aren't too worried about it.

Cheers,
Mike

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 4:19 AM, Bill Quimby <wquimby at embarqmail.com> wrote:
> Just recently discovered AAAARG.ORG at http://a.aaaarg.org
> - a treasure of online academic books - philosophy, history, theory,
> feminism, much badiou, much adorno, much marcuse, some classic
> marxist texts, mouffe and laclau, some entire issues of Historical
> Materialism, and on and on.
>
> And yes, Derrida!
>
> You can subscribe to a newsletter announcing just-added material.
>
> Not sure about the legal-challenges of services of this type, but they seem
> to be increasing - see http://www.scribd.com for another source of online
> material, for example. You might want to take advantage of them before
> they disappear!
>
> (Still though - I find it very difficult to read book-length texts on my
> comp
> and am always tempted to print - if not the whole text, portions of
> interest.
> Don't know if it is just me, but there do seem to be some serious "machine
> readability" issues to be resolved before ebooks are the norm.)
>
> - Bill
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