Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - new book

i think the real lasting solution is going electronic. the costs of paper production are killing publishers, and we can dispense with physical books, much as we love love love them.

kenneth harrow

professor emeritus

dept of english

michigan state university

517 803-8839

harrow@msu.edu

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From: 'Michael Afolayan' via USA Africa Dialogue Series <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2022 10:12 PM
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Many thanks, Ken. This is a dilemma that we have to grapple with in this day and age. We can only always hope for a lasting solution.

MOA

On Thursday, May 26, 2022, 05:07:32 PM CDT, Harrow, Kenneth <harrow@msu.edu> wrote:

dear michael,

i worry as much as you about the price. the ebook is reasonable, and the discount helps. it comes in around $40 or maybe a bit less.

not cheap, but not ridiculously $160 priced...

the high price is for libraries. after 1.5 years, a paper version comes out.

that's the way lots of publishers are now operating, to try to cover the expenses.

i think we all have to go electric; paper is just too too expensive.

i just bought an ipad and will try to learn how to use it, and start buying ebooks.

some people manage to get their works published open access.

my hope would be that a cheaper version would be made available for african clients, but i don't know if routledge would honor that request.

i will ask them again about that

ken

kenneth harrow

professor emeritus

dept of english

michigan state university

517 803-8839

harrow@msu.edu

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From: 'Michael Afolayan' via USA Africa Dialogue Series <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2022 8:32 PM
To: USAAfricaDialogue@googlegroups.com <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com>
Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - new book

 

Congrats, Ken! I look forward to the book's outing. But without sounding like a broken record, may I ask, once again, who these publishers are targeting as customers - certainly not students, not anyone in Africa (except, perhaps politicians who would care less about it). Even professors in the Americas would think twice before purchasing a single book for $128+tx+S&H for a hardcopy material (I'm looking at $140 here). How do we deal with this serious situation???

Painfully,

MOA

On Tuesday, May 24, 2022, 04:46:04 PM CDT, Harrow, Kenneth <harrow@msu.edu> wrote:

dear friends

i wrote a book on space and time in african cinema and cine-scapes. i am hoping to open new ways to think about cinema using concepts of space and time from modern physics.

 it will be out with routledge next month, only in hardback (very expensive) and ebook (reasonable, especially with discount).

i hope toyin adepoju and many others on the list who are interested in science and film might find it of interest.

ken

kenneth harrow

professor emeritus

dept of english

michigan state university

517 803-8839

harrow@msu.edu

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