De Gruyter is a German publisher. Most of their work (they do more than publishing) appears to be in academic publishing. They have a very high reputation for publishing quality academic books.
I don't know how many of you out there in MobileReader Land are interested in academic books--I know that at least a few of you are--but I thought that I would post the following information for those who are unaware of it.
Actually, I think that I may have posted something about this before, but I think that people would appreciate being reminded. In addition to that, some facts have changed since that time.
De Gruyter publishes a very large number of their books as open access, which in this case, at least, means that they are
free to anyone. They state, in fact:
There are more than 450 open access journals and several hundreds of open access books from De Gruyter, De Gruyter Open and De Gruyter's publisher partners available on De Gruyter Online.
One thing that I didn't mention about De Gruyter in the opening paragraph is not only do they have a high reputation for quality, they also have a reputation for their books being expensive, some of them
very expensive. In fact, what led me to De Gruyter today is an interest that I have (well, I
did have--what I'm about to say explains the reason for the change) in a particular academic book that they publish. The hardcover price at Amazon for the most recent edition of this book is $545.00! Being naive (some would call it "stupid" ha), I thought that I would check De Gruyter's website to see if it might happen to be available free as open access (it isn't, in case anyone is wondering).
To find out what's available from them in open access, I recommend that you start
here, on this webpage. There are two prominent links on
that webpage. One says "All open access publications." I didn't spend much time there but, frankly, I didn't see any open access publications there (if you are interested in open access books, I can recommend some websites where you can do truly fruitful searches for them. Just let me know if you would like for me to do that). However, if you follow the second link, "De Gruyter Open publications," you will find a veritable storehouse of
free academic books published by De Gruyter.
Why not give De Gruyter's open access
freebies a looking-over, if you have interest in academic/scholarly publications?
I've always heard that the best things in life are free . . . .