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Worth checking if your national library can procure it. In the UK the
national copyright libraries in principle have a copy of every book
that is copyrighted in the UK, they don't necessarily chase this if no
one asks for it.
It is only fairly recently that private citizens developed the
expectation that they can buy any book they need, and for specialist
books it is what libraries are for.  Some libraries now have schemes
that allow one to borrow electronic books for a limited period.

There is another debate about work that is publicly funded being open
access.  I think it should but...  In the UK my research that is
funded by a grant gets the gold  open access fees paid by the
university.  See how in the Journal of Navigation George Kaplan's
paper is Gold open access. Mine is not as work on navigation not
covered by a grant. Its not a hobby, exactly and my time is paid for
by the university but not on a grant.  But with a bit of persistence
one can find copies of my paper as "green open access", ie a preprint
or link to a non-printable version.

Bill Lionheart





On Wed, 29 Jul 2020 at 07:02, James F Campbell
 wrote:
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> Who are these scholars to whom this book is supposedly aimed?
> Are we NAVLISTERS, not scholars of cel nav?
> The price is unreasonable, for all.
>
> J. Campbell
>
> On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 11:31 AM Geoffrey Kolbe  wrote:
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>> Dale Lichtblau said:
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>> "$160? I don't think so."
>>
>> This is not a "popular" book. It is a book for "scholars" with an 
expectation of a limited market. That being the case, the price is actually 
quite reasonable...
>>
>> Geoffrey Kolbe
>>
>> 
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> 

   

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