This site is selling Pro Drupal Development chapters 25$ a piece (!!)
Chill35 - May 19, 2008 - 19:11
It's even selling the one chapter that's free to download from the publisher's web site...The Theme System... for 25 dollars:
https://commerce.metapress.com/content/j75477l82u04v185/resource-secured...
Isn't expensive to sell Individual Book Chapter (Electronic Only, ie: PDF) for 25 dollars?
But most importantly, is this legal? Does the publisher know about this?
Other Drupal book sold per-chapter is:
Building Online Communities with Drupal, phpBB, and WordPress
http://commerce.metapress.com/content/?mode=allwords&k=drupal&sortorder=...
MetaPress looks legitimate:
MetaPress looks legitimate: they seem to have contracts with publishers to republish content in digital form, and seem to focus on journal publications (where $25/article is a high incentive to join an institutional subscription plan).
Thanks
Yeah they look legitimate.
Oh yeah. This would be great for universities for instance. The university would pay a subscription and anyone there could login and upload any chapter at no charge... from their large bank of articles.
Caroline
11 heavens.com
Thanks for bringing this to my attention!
@Chill35, thank you! We are in a partnership with MetaPress.
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