does anyone have an ebook copy of Sue Brunning, _The Sword in Early Medieval Northern Europe; Experience, Identity, Representation_ ? #medievaltwitter #icanhazpdf
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Replying to @CanaryCaroline
We’re in a pandemic and I’m a grad student without library access.
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Replying to @CanaryCaroline @HalstedMedieval
It costs an absurd amount of money for libraries to pay for licenses for ebooks. There was a thread about getting access, it would cost the library 70K pounds to get an ebook license for ONE book. Not to mention scholars don't make really any money off academic publishing.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @HalstedMedieval
In which case I am horrified that a publisher would charge that much. Boydell certainly don't.
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Replying to @CanaryCaroline @HalstedMedieval
Good for them. My library has e-book access for very few, and a large chunk I can only access ON campus. Including Boydell books. Maybe you should be getting onto publishers to reduce fees in a pandemic instead of admonishing poor grad students.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @HalstedMedieval
I'm sorry. I didn't mean to admonish. I was trying to explain that it's an issue for publishers (and we're not all Elsevier), that's all.
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Well then go and talk to the libraries about ebook access if this bothers you so much. Your initial tweet was patronizing and passive-aggressive and completely unnecessary right now.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @HalstedMedieval
As I say I apologise unreservedly if this is how it came across since this was not my intention. I only wanted to try to say why it can be an issue for a publisher (employee owned without reserves) in such a situation.
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