Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 14, No. 32.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
<http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/>
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Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 06:43:00 +0100
From: Han Baltussen <han.baltussen@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: 14.0028 data-mining by textbook publishers
I have had no experience but it is perhaps of interest to note that a new
company to start end of july (swotbook.com) is about to start using
electronic business for textbook distribution (source: last week's THES, UK)
HB
> Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 14, No. 28.
> Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
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> Date: Sat, 20 May 2000 05:48:12 +0100
> From: Paul Brians <brians@mail.wsu.edu>
> >
>
>Because I've done published some of my translations on the Web, from time
>to time I'm contacted by textbook publishers wanting to reprint them in
>readers.
>
>So far, in every case, they've offered no money, though they quickly
>acceded when I asked a modest fee. And in every case the contract they sent
>me had no mention of the fee on it. A follow-up call usually results in my
>being told to just write the fee in.
>
>Now why would one design a contract omitting any mention of payment unless
>one were hoping to trick the unwary into signing automatically and
>forfeiting payment? Has anyone else encountered this sort of attempt at
>piratical data mining on the Web?
>
>Then there are the companies that want to sell you public-domain texts at
>low, low prices when they're readily available free on the Web.
>
>Professors are viewed by some of these publishers as unintelligent cash
>cows, ready for milking.
>--
>Paul Brians, Department of English
>Washington State University
>Pullman, WA 99164-5020
>brians@wsu.edu
>http://www.wsu.edu/~brians
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to the Ancient Commentators Project
Dept. of Philosophy
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