Timeline for Why would an academic write a textbook for free?
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| Dec 21, 2018 at 11:43 | comment | added | Pere | Related: gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/166313/… | |
| Jul 17, 2017 at 15:06 | history | edited | Massimo Ortolano | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 17, 2017 at 8:05 | comment | added | Violapterin | A similar question I have wondered for a long time is that how does the author obtain copyright if he or she does not publish in traditional press! In addition, some books are published in a traditional press (having an ISBN), but are freely available (legally), which is also strange! | |
| Jul 17, 2017 at 4:59 | comment | added | ಠ_ಠ | This is actually reasonably common with more advanced mathematics texts. Plenty of authors (Allen Hatcher, Anders Kock, Ravi Vakil etc.) put their textbooks online for free, and even those who don't put up a final version, still often put a close-to-final draft online for free. | |
| Jul 15, 2017 at 20:09 | comment | added | nilon | As a general rule of thumb, common in anthropology (even if you can get untrue responses) you can always ask the person himself. In this case you got lucky. All the better. | |
| Jul 14, 2017 at 16:49 | comment | added | KSmarts | @juhist Why would people give advice to strangers about working in academia for free? | |
| Jul 12, 2017 at 17:52 | comment | added | juhist | Three other closely related questions: why would people write open source software for free? Why would people give tutorials in conferences for free? Heck, why would people write journal articles for free and they will be sold by the publisher for high amounts of money the author will never see? I'm sure if you figure out the answer to these three closely related questions, you will realize what the answer to your original question was. | |
| Jul 12, 2017 at 13:19 | comment | added | Mindwin Remember Monica | Your "closely related question" should belong in its own question. But it is a hard number to assess. | |
| Jul 12, 2017 at 0:21 | answer | added | paul garrett | timeline score: 8 | |
| Jul 11, 2017 at 23:40 | answer | added | yoniLavi | timeline score: 7 | |
| S Jul 11, 2017 at 13:20 | history | mod moved comments to chat | |||
| S Jul 11, 2017 at 13:20 | comment | added | eykanal | Comments are not for extended discussion; this conversation has been moved to chat. | |
| Jul 11, 2017 at 2:58 | history | edited | I Like to Code | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
added my personal experience with textbooks from academic publishers
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| Jul 9, 2017 at 23:29 | vote | accept | I Like to Code | ||
| Jul 9, 2017 at 14:10 | answer | added | David J. Eck | timeline score: 529 | |
| Jul 8, 2017 at 20:44 | answer | added | Jonathan St-Yves | timeline score: 7 | |
| Jul 8, 2017 at 18:23 | answer | added | Daniel R. Collins | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jul 8, 2017 at 18:09 | answer | added | JeopardyTempest | timeline score: 10 | |
| Jul 8, 2017 at 16:24 | answer | added | Pere | timeline score: 32 | |
| Jul 8, 2017 at 14:25 | history | edited | I Like to Code | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
added related question
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| Jul 8, 2017 at 12:17 | answer | added | user67075 | timeline score: 12 | |
| Jul 8, 2017 at 11:48 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackAcademia/status/883653925190217728 | ||
| Jul 8, 2017 at 11:18 | answer | added | JeffE | timeline score: 176 | |
| Jul 8, 2017 at 8:58 | history | edited | I Like to Code | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 8, 2017 at 8:50 | history | asked | I Like to Code | CC BY-SA 3.0 |