Academics are being hoodwinked into writing books nobody can buy

Re:Academics are being hoodwinked into writing books nobody ... by GFK_of_xmaspast on Sunday September 06, 2015 @11:40AM (#10177927)

Of the 30 books on the front page of your bestselling list, the closest things to an 'academic book' I see are all texts designed to accompany Coursera courses.

Those aren't academic books, those are introductory text books.

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Re:Academics are being hoodwinked into writing books nobody ... by peterarmstrong on Sunday September 06, 2015 @02:44PM (#10178550)

I should have been more precise: yes, they are introductory textbooks which accompany courses. I was defining academic as "it's a textbook of any level" not "it's graduate level only".

Leanpub has also been used to publish work based on dissertations (which is as academic as it gets), and those works obviously have far fewer sales.

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