Springer is a real scientific publisher --- some of the books which they produce have very limited readerships, but huge expenses in terms of the cost of finding editors competent in the fields, as well as author royalties --- this is just one of the more extreme examples.
(ob. discl. I did work on a book for them, Thomas Harriot's _Artis Analyticae Praxis: An English Translation with Commentary_)
William
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