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Is there a downside that I'm overlooking?
Off topic, but apropos publishing, I ran into your name following this post from Leiter on a journal that might (but the jury is still out) be a scam:
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As former contributer, they are also using your name: http://www.addletonacademicpublishers.com/contributors-rcp
PS: Apropos of the article you printed in Review of Contempoary Philosophy (which I like - scam journal or not), it will be VERY exciting see if Heidegger's "Black books" contains the alleged notebook on Wittgenstein...
Thanks. Yes, a notebook by Heidegger on Wittgenstein would be interesting to read.
ReplyDeleteI don't think that journal is a scam, but it is odd. I had that paper on my (now defunct) website and hadn't managed to find a publisher when I got an email from the blue asking if they could publish it. So I accepted the offer. I didn't have to pay anything to get them to publish it (unlike an even more obscure publication of mine in a journal that wanted me to subscribe after they had accepted the paper for publication--I refused and they published it anyway, but that felt like a scam). Unfortunately I have never seen a copy of the supposedly published paper, and I don't know anyone who has. Requests through inter-library loan draw a blank. Michael Kremer seems convinced that the journal really exists, though, and he is unlikely to be deceived about that.
the only time i've ever really 'used' a fortified online publication of a book (ie. not say google books or a pdf, but a site presenting the book usually run by a publisher) is, say, for one that UC press put online that was out of print and far too expensive to buy used. but these sites always strike me as excessively un-useable. i would much rather have a pdf than anything else save an actual book, and those seem to have an easier time traveling in the world, anyway.
ReplyDeleteThanks, j. Maybe I should just leave it as it is.
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