Please may I suggest that, if the policy is reviewed, book announcements be:
(a) very brief (with a link to further details, for those who want them);
(b) very precisely relevant to the list and its interests; and, (c) prefaced
with the words "NEW BOOK", so that those who don't want to read them can
filter them out without effort? Thanks, Jim
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Dr Jim Endersby
Research Associate and Lecturer
Department of the History and Philosophy of Science
University of Cambridge
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Promoting discussion in the science studies community
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Hugh Aldersey-Williams
> Sent: 01 November 2006 12:41
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> Subject: Re: book promotions on mersenne
>
> I'm with Brid. Let's review the policy
> This, for me, was a rare item of interest, and one I'll act on.
> There is at times like this a rather unappealing undercurrent of
> snobbery towards 'commerce' on this and similar lists, one that
> somehow refuses to recognize that academic posts, conferences,
> seminars etc are not that different from books.
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