Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 16, No. 157.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
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[1] From: Willard McCarty <w.mccarty@btinternet.com> (20)
Subject: commercial offerings
[2] From: Willard McCarty <w.mccarty@btinternet.com> (12)
Subject: article on e-commentary
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Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 10:30:50 +0100
From: Willard McCarty <w.mccarty@btinternet.com>
Subject: commercial offerings
In Humanist 16.152 I circulated a number of publication notices from
Kluwer, sent to me from an "alert" service this publisher runs.
Subsequently a colleague and friend has written to object to the practice,
saying that notices from individuals about publication of their books are
welcome to him, but that he regards notices from commercial publishers as
unacceptable. How does everyone else feel about this?
My take on the matter is pragmatic: we need to know about new books, both
the sort that members themselves write and those further afield that are
still relevant to our concerns. I see no harm in exploiting a publisher's
desire to sell books, in order to satisfy our own intellectual purposes --
in fact I take pleasure in reversing the usual vector. But Humanist is a
commune of a sort. Let us all know your opinion, please.
Allow me again to invite everyone to send in notices of publication for
their articles and books. This happens all too seldom.
Yours,
WM
Dr Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer,
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London,
Strand, London WC2R 2LS, U.K.,
+44 (0)20 7848-2784, ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/,
willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk, w.mccarty@btinternet.com
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Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 10:31:26 +0100
From: Willard McCarty <w.mccarty@btinternet.com>
Subject: article on e-commentary
Dear Colleagues:
In the spirit of the above invitation, I submit the following:
McCarty, Willard. "A Network with a Thousand Entrances: Commentary in an
Electronic Age?" In The Classical Commentary: Histories, Practices, Theory.
Ed. Roy K Gibson and Christina Shuttleworth Kraus. Mnemosyne Supplementum
232. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2002: 359-402.
Yours,
WM
Dr Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer,
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London,
Strand, London WC2R 2LS, U.K.,
+44 (0)20 7848-2784, ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/,
willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk, w.mccarty@btinternet.com
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