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:

1.kenthomas - May 19, 2008 - 19:23

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

Chill35 - May 19, 2008 - 21:26

Yeah they look legitimate.

where $25/article is a high incentive to join an institutional subscription plan

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!

juliemiller - May 19, 2008 - 22:16

@Chill35, thank you! We are in a partnership with MetaPress.

Julie Miller
Marketing Product Manager
Apress
2855 Telegraph Avenue, Suite 600
Berkeley, CA 94705

510.549.5930 x 126 phone
510.549.5939 fax

julie_miller@apress.com

 
 

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