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        Date: 2024-10-03 07:56:09+00:00
        From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk>
        Subject: two new books and some hard questions

This in case you have not seen the announcements of two new books of
interest:

Peter Krapp, Computing Legacies: Digital Cultures of Simulation (MIT
Press, 2024). <https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262549837/computing-legacies/>.

William Aspray, ed. Writing Computer and Information History
Approaches, Connections, and Reflections (Rowman & Littlefield, 2024).
Contributions by Toni Weller, Thomas Haigh, James Cortada, Laura
Skouvig, Geoffrey Bowker and John Leslie King, David Gugerli and Daniela
Zetti, Shane Greenstein, Daniel Garcia Swartz and Martin Campbell-Kelly,
Philip Doty and William Aspray, Valerie Schafer, Matthew Jones, Howard
Rosenbaum, Greg Downey, and Liesbeth De Mol.
<https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781538183816/Writing-Computer-and-Information-History-
Approaches-Connections-and-Reflections>.

The price of the latter ($50 for a digital copy, $120 for a hardcover)
raises questions about doing and publishing scholarship, esp for junior
scholars and small publishers. Where might an investigation into the
deeper causes of the situation to which these point lead us?

Yours,
WM
--
Willard McCarty,
Professor emeritus, King's College London;
Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews;  Humanist
www.mccarty.org.uk


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