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

Re:Springer Textbooks More Than 10 Years Old Available for F... by datihein on Wednesday December 30, 2015 @11:41AM (#10812828)

Those links are to "Open Access" books and have always, I believe, been free (as in beer).

The content identified by the original post were not open access; they were paid access (typically quite expensive) and published in 2004 or before.

I hope the zero cost downloads was not a glitch but a policy, and that Springer will make those older texts freely available again.

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Re:Springer Textbooks More Than 10 Years Old Available for F... by petke on Wednesday December 30, 2015 @11:56AM (#10812935)

I hope nobody gets fired for this. Probably a lots of these leaked books will be up on torrent sites.

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Re:Springer Textbooks More Than 10 Years Old Available for F... by mindcrime on Wednesday December 30, 2015 @12:47PM (#10813217)

* Probably a lots of these leaked books will be up on torrent sites.*

If I had to guess, I'd say a pretty good chunk of them already were on torrent sites or LibGen.

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