Will we see the same thing from Elsevier?
Springer Textbooks More Than 10 Years Old Available for Free Legal Download
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#102Can somebody please download them all and seed them?
That does not seem to currently be legal under the T&C, unfortunately.
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#103Can somebody please download them all and seed them?
AFAIK, they are still covered by copyright (they are just being sold for $0.00; so free as in beer) so we won't necessarily have the right to redistribute in any way we might like unless explicitly allowed.
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#104The fun is over. There are only 135 books available now instead of 56,000.
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#105Earlier quoted context omitted.
From http://www.springeropen.com/books > SpringerOpen books are published under the Creative Commons Non-Commercial (CC BY-NC) license, so they can be reused and redistributed for non-commercial purposes as long as the original author is attributed.
SpringerOpen is not what's being talking about here. There are only a few dozen books listed in that page. I don't think any of the books being referenced in the comments is there.
That page isn't a complete listing, but you're right, only ~100 of the books seem to be properly open access, unfortunately. I guess Springer can decide to revoke access to the rest at any point in the future.
Edit: looks like they've revoked access already in fact https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10811854
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#106Well there are prices appearing now for me in the UK so apparently those freebies weren't intentional.
sad
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#107It ended for my IP. Don't know if they set a limit of books per IP, or it just ended? 4:53 a.m. Pacific time. Good while it lasted.
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#109Some good CS books that I found: Approximation Algorithms http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-662-04565-7 How to Solve It: Modern Heuristics http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-662-07807-5 Modern Graph Theory http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4612-0619-4 Computational Geometry http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-662-03427-9
From Newton to Mandelbrot http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-642-86780-4 shows how to use small tractable computer simulations to understand Physics. Modern Heuristics is in my top-k books of all time. Check out Zbigniew Michalewicz's other books @ http://cs.adelaide.edu.au/~zbyszek/books.html
> Check out Zbigniew Michalewicz's other books @ ...
thank you ! this led me to his books on evolution programs (Genetic Algorithms + Data Structures = Evolutionary Programs), which is an excellent book as well.
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#110Sooo many good books! I'm exhausted! Here are some good ones: MPEG Video Compression Standard: http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/b115884 Chaos and Fractals: http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/b97624 Proofs from THE BOOK: http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-662-05412-3 Joel on Software: http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4302-0753-5 Programming Challenges: http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/…
MPEG Video Compression Standard:
http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/b115884
It says restricted to me and offers me to buy chapter for
$29.95 and whole book for $229.00