Wow, Dominic. I knew things had been bad, but somehow (perhaps because
I was never deeply theoretical) missed such horrors as Shapiro
describes. Interesting, but true, (as one responder suggests) academic
books are probably mostly published in smaller runs than even poetry....
Doug
On 10-Dec-08, at 9:53 AM, Dominic Fox wrote:
> Douglas Barbour wrote:
>> Whew, what books exactly, Christopher?
>>
> Steven Shaviro on this and related matters: http://www.shaviro.com/Blog/?p=690
>
> I've only read Nihil Unbound myself because someone forwarded me the
> PDF. Forty-five quid! It's a great book, but still - they'd sell
> three times as many at half the price.
>
> Dominic
>
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