Thanks, Roger. Good point. Nick
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Roger Critchlow Sent: Friday, November 18, 2011 12:45 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Google Books Nick -- Could you give a specific example? I've found that reprints which generate revenues for someone tend to magically float to the top of the heap, but the free scans are still in there. For instance, I search "quaternions" and I get lots of recent books for sale, but I click the "Free Google eBooks" link in the sidebar and I'm back in the 19th century looking at Hamilton and Tate. A search for "william james" brings up original free texts mixed with more recently edited collections, clicking the "Free Google eBooks" link makes the edited collections go away. -- rec -- On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 12:34 PM, Nicholas Thompson <[email protected]> wrote: Dear all, A lot of my thinking is about old ideas, and that send me back looking for old texts, specifically from the later 19th and early 20th century. It seems that when I first started at this project, I could use google books very handily to get old texts. Now it seems that every time I go to get an old text, somebody "owns" it, and google books won't give it to me. Was I just lucky early on and my luck has turned or has capitalist evil once again tainted paradise. NONE of these things are anywhere near in copy right. Nick Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology Clark University http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ http://www.cusf.org <http://www.cusf.org/> ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
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