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

[David Kellogg]

Dear Jody:

I just got a message from the publisher--they "print on demand". This is a
new technique that a lot of publishers use--it means they don't have to
keep warehouses and hire workers, or worry aboiut unsold copies. Once you
order, they just print the copy that you've ordered.

What this means is that hardbound copies take one to three months if you
order them through Amazon.com. But if you order them straight from the
publisher, you should get a copy in six weeks time (!).

Notice that you can get a ringbound "e-copy" version for twenty-four
dollars--for some reason this is a lot cheaper than an electronic
e-version. Go figure!

(This is the kind that I always take to the gym--it's the only kind that
stays open on the treadmill, and it does wonders to block out the robotic
music they insist on playing.....)

David Kellogg
Sangmyung University

New Article: 'Commentary: On the originality of Vygotsky's "Thought and
Word" i
in *Mind Culture and Activity*

*https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10749039.2020.1711775
<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10749039.2020.1711775>*
Some free e-prints available at:
https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/SK2DR3TYBMJ42MFPYRFY/full?target=10.1080/10749039.2020.1711775

New Translation with Nikolai Veresov: "L.S. Vygotsky's Pedological Works
Volume One: Foundations of Pedology"

 https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9789811505270




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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