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Originally Posted by HarryT
As an author of physics textbooks myself, I'm sure you'll appreciate my interest in the fact that they are being made available free of charge. I know that some publishers are releasing PDF versions of textbooks, but I hadn't come across them being made available without cost. How do the economics of this work? ie how does the author get paid?
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In some cases, like
Warren Siegel's Fields and
Motion Mountain the author gets no monetary compensation. They just do it because they love the subject I guess.
Mark Srednicki released his book for free online and hopes people that like it will buy it off Amazon.
Many of the ebooks I used as textbooks are really a collection of lecture notes. I don't think you could find a similar occurrence outside of the science genre of textbooks.
But ultimately, most of my ebooks are 'pirated' (if that's the correct term).