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

[David Kellogg]

No bother at all, Jody. I forwarded your note where it counts, and now my
own basket, at least, fills up like a charm.

(Thanks for your quick response, by the way; it will increase our chance of
getting a Springer contract for "Pedology of the Adolescent"!)
,
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 Sat, Jan 4, 2020 at 9:26 AM Jody Cooper <jody.hyatt@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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