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Originally Posted by HarryT
Look at the site more carefully. The cost is for either the paper book or the commercial ebook. Each of the Open Access books has a link below it saying "Click here to go to the OA version" which takes you to a page where you can download the book for free (as a DRM-free PDF).
For example:
https://www.oapen.org/search?identif...%20and%20proud |
Genuine thanks for the correction/clarification.
That's one of the dangers of spot-checking (I might have pointed out, that I had spot-checked, in the post that disappeared; I don't see it in my previous posted messages about the sale, etc.). But what's a person to do?
As it turns out, the one OA book that I was interested in is not free.
I hope that the day comes when an OA item is universally, by definition, free. There are still some, like MUP, apparently, which use that term in a broader sense. In fact, I don't see any difference
to the customer in an OA and non-OA book at the MUP website. There almost certainly are differences in how publication is funded and things like that. There is probably something on
this MUP webpage which will clue people in to what the differences are, in their way of thinking. I lack the interest in reading any of it.
So, I think that the upshot is, practically speaking, that there are 9 books at MUP that are currently designated as "Open Access." At least one of those, and possibly others, are free. If you are interested in seeing if an item among those OA items is free, check the book's webpage.