[Xmca-l] Re: Just Published: L.S. Vygotsky's Pedological Works Vol. 1

[Jody Cooper]

Sorry to be a bother, but I tried to order a hardcopy book. I registered
with Springer, successfully I believe. But they won't let me put the book
in my cart and buy it. Maybe I'll have to buy an ebook? Any suggestions?

On Fri, Jan 3, 2020 at 5:11 PM David Kellogg <dkellogg60@gmail.com> wrote:

> Wagner--
>
> Nikolai and I did make all the material which we ourselves wrote available
> for free. All you have to do is click the free previews and the front and
> endmatter,and you'll get a free pdf. The free previews will tell you, in
> summary form, what the actual lecture says, and you can decide whether it's
> worth the money to be able to cite chapter and verse.
>
> But I can think of a lot of good reasons for publishing with Springer.
>
> a) Springer have been around a while--they were founded when Marx was just
> getting started in journalism and Vygotsky cites a lot of their Gestalist
> books--hopefully they will last longer than, say, the Soviet publishing
> house Vygotsky used did. (The Russian university press that published the
> first version of the lectures back in 2001 is now bankrupt and has
> disappeared without a trace!)
> b) Springer are very much part of the academic market here in East Asia
> (they aren't in Singapore for the cheap labour!)
> c) Springer have an aggressive line in e-books, which are the main mode
> for literacy on my commute to work these days. (Even in illiterate England,
> Paul McCartney says he can ride the London tube now because everybody is
> too busy looking up his picture on Google images to notice the original
> sitting next to them).
> d) Yelena Kravtsova is on the editorial board of the cultural-historical
> research series, (She has some claim to the rights to Vygotsky's work,
> according to the lawyers.)
> e) Springer stocks libraries.
>
> I can also think of three good reasons for not making stuff free on the
> internet.
>
> a) Somebody is going to sue you eventually (apply to Andy for details on
> this).
> b) It's too confusing for readers to sort out the chaff from the grain
> these days.
> c) It's gonna happen anyway.
>
> Actually, the main reason we chose Springer was the same reason that one
> chooses a wife, husband, or more temporary partner even though they too
> might just be hungry.
>
> Everybody out there was taking no risks and saying no. Springer
> was willing to take a chance and say yes.
>
> David Kellogg
> Sangmyung University
>
> New article with Fang Li:
> "How do novels hang together? Characterization as registerial
> meta-stability"
> Text & Talk
>
>
> https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/text.ahead-of-print/text-2019-2051/text-2019-2051.xml
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 3, 2020 at 9:04 PM Wagner Luiz Schmit <wagner.schmit@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> We have this in Portuguese, and cheap. Very very interesting material
>> presenting another unit of analysis.
>>
>> Seriously, why we as Marxists insists on publishing with money hunger
>> corporations, for-profit publishers and so on?
>>
>> Wagner
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 3, 2020 at 8:11 AM David Kellogg <dkellogg60@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> This is a pretty slim volume, and it's expensive. But if you click on
>>> the free preview and the chapter summaries, you can get a pretty good idea
>>> of what you (or your library) will be paying for.
>>>
>>>
>>> https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9789811505270
>>>
>>>
>>> I'm afraid that even the ebook is expensive:
>>>
>>>
>>> https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-981-15-0528-7
>>>
>>>
>>> But this is free!
>>>
>>>
>>> https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/bfm%3A978-981-15-0528-7%2F1.pdf
>>>
>>>
>>> and so is this:
>>>
>>>
>>> https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/bbm%3A978-981-15-0528-7%2F1.pdf
>>>
>>>
>>> David Kellogg
>>> Sangmyung University
>>>
>>> New article with Fang Li:
>>> "How do novels hang together? Characterization as registerial
>>> meta-stability"
>>> Text & Talk
>>>
>>>
>>> https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/text.ahead-of-print/text-2019-2051/text-2019-2051.xml
>>>
>>>
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