On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 8:52 AM, Nikos Alexandris <nikos.alexand...@felis.uni-freiburg.de> wrote: > G. Allegri wrote: >> Open Source Approaches in Spatial Data Handling - Springer Advances in >> GIS series >> http://www.springer.com/series/7712?cm_mmc=other-_-Enews-_-PSE12813_V1-_-77 >> 12 > > Hi! > > I have bought last year the (me thinks it is) 1st book of the series [1]. I > liked the book and I would recommend it. Yet, one thing I want to note: in my > humble opinion, it was/is very expensive [for my (still-)student pocket!]: >>100.-EU for <300 pages. > > It seems (to me) the book is targeting (only) open source advocates, people > who don't have problem spending such amounts and/or libraries. >
It is the perennial problem of academic publications, the publisher makes them expensive because they won't sell many copies and they don't sell many copies because they are expensive. :-( This is especially annoying as the authors give them the text for free. Ian -- Ian Turton _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
