Springer Textbooks More Than 10 Years Old Available for Free Legal Download

Post by vive-la-liberte » Wed, Dec 30, 2015, 10:05 PM UTC

johnloeber wrote: post #161

bluenose69 wrote: post #139

Access seems to have been cut off about 2 hours ago. Presumably this was a mistake, but new-year optimists might hope that Springer did this on purpose, to gauge the market at low cost. As someone with a full-time job, I'd be happy to pay $10 to $20 to download an old book that might come in handy, but with conventional download costs being half the paper cost, I balk and just walk over to the university library so I…

I reached out to the folks at Springer and asked them whether the availability of 57,000 titles for free download had been some kind of accident. Here's the response I got: > Thank you for reaching out to us. From time to time our titles may become available to the public for legal download. There is no guarantee that titles available will remain available permanently. The only titles that will remain available are t…

Post by spopejoy » Thu, Dec 31, 2015, 2:21 AM UTC

rswier wrote: post #23

Searched for "Compiler" and was not disappointed. Tim Budd's "An APL Compiler" is a classic. I love the goofy title of Mads Tofte's: "Compiler Generators What They Can Do, What They Might Do, and What They Will Probably Never Do" Paid a handsome amount for these and many others at Reiter's Books back in the day!

Post by aslammuet » Thu, Dec 31, 2015, 6:43 AM UTC

msie wrote: post #27

Sooo 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/…

Post by robryk » Thu, Dec 31, 2015, 10:03 AM UTC

impendia wrote: post #149

bluenose69 wrote: post #139

Access seems to have been cut off about 2 hours ago. Presumably this was a mistake, but new-year optimists might hope that Springer did this on purpose, to gauge the market at low cost. As someone with a full-time job, I'd be happy to pay $10 to $20 to download an old book that might come in handy, but with conventional download costs being half the paper cost, I balk and just walk over to the university library so I…

I am not an expert on copyright law -- do you (or anyone) know to what extent I am legally allowed to share the books I downloaded from Springer's website while I could? In particular, I am teaching a course this spring based on two Springer books that I was able to download yesterday. If I e-mail PDFs to all of my students, am I legally in the clear?

Post by forgotten_pw » Mon, Jan 11, 2016, 5:26 PM UTC

bewe42 wrote: post #64

forgotten_pw wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe you already know this, but I think the phrase you're looking for is "right off the bat". I'm not really sure where it comes from though. Just thought you might want some stranger on the internet to correct your usage of idioms (seriously though; I'm not trying to be a dick, just trying to share some knowledge).

baseball analogy?