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Steve: At the moment no one, not even my mother, has been given a free copy of the book. The topic is, obviously, fairly specialised, so the pool of potential readers is quite small. The decision was taken to charge the lowest possible price for it in order to encourage its spread. These two facts together mean that there is a very limited budget for promotion and no "spare" copies have been printed.
Depending on sales this view might change, a number of people have suggested that the book should cost $70 rather than $7.99. If that were the price then it would be easier to justify the investment in promotion and distributing, "free" copies would be one of the ways of doing that.
The goal of the book was to provide an introduction to "things that everyone should know" for those managing subsurface data. So, the intention is that a reasonable level of reproducing the figures is encouraged, provided the source is acknowledged. However, the bland phrase "the source is acknowledged" does hide some challenges. The majority of figures in the book are derived from material that has been published elsewhere, and whose copyright rests with someone other than me. It is not my intention to deprive anyone of their rights, which is why most original sources are acknowledged in the book. I was however less vigilant than perhaps I should have been in noting sources.
This concern to recognise the original rights holder is the reason why I ask that anyone wanting to exploit the figures contact me before they do so.
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7 Jun 2013
eBook Version
Hello Steve,
I'd like to buy your book, but not hardcopy. I live in Jakarta and Amazon deliveries don't always work well. Is the book available in electronic format?
Thank you
At the moment there is no digital version available, and there are no plans to release one