http://crookedtimber.org/2004/04/21/freebies/ Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made Sun, 12 Feb 2012 21:53:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://crookedtimber.org/2004/04/21/freebies/comment-page-1/#comment-25876 Mithras Sat, 24 Apr 2004 16:20:59 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/wp/?p=1445#comment-25876 Has anyone actually read Bernstein's book? The one excerpt I read didn't inspire me to rush out and get it. By the way, the Volokh links in your post seem to be formatted incorrectly, at least in IE6 and Firebird. Has anyone actually read Bernstein’s book? The one excerpt I read didn’t inspire me to rush out and get it. By the way, the Volokh links in your post seem to be formatted incorrectly, at least in IE6 and Firebird.

]]> http://crookedtimber.org/2004/04/21/freebies/comment-page-1/#comment-25875 harry Thu, 22 Apr 2004 02:38:09 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/wp/?p=1445#comment-25875 bq. Imagine how much free publicity Kieran would give You Can’t Say That! if I had actually had the publisher send him a review copy I think there's a wierd rule that if one is sent a review copy of a book one would otherwise have read, one doesn't. Certainly works in my case -- oops, that's knocked me off some free book lists.. Imagine how much free publicity Kieran would give You Can’t Say That! if I had actually had the publisher send him a review copy I think there’s a wierd rule that if one is sent a review copy of a book one would otherwise have read, one doesn’t. Certainly works in my case—oops, that’s knocked me off some free book lists.. ]]> http://crookedtimber.org/2004/04/21/freebies/comment-page-1/#comment-25874 Tuttle Wed, 21 Apr 2004 21:15:37 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/wp/?p=1445#comment-25874 He blogs for the Viet Cong? He blogs for the Viet Cong?

]]> http://crookedtimber.org/2004/04/21/freebies/comment-page-1/#comment-25873 David Bernstein Wed, 21 Apr 2004 16:55:47 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/wp/?p=1445#comment-25873 Imagine how much free publicity Kieran would give You Can't Say That! if I had actually had the publisher send him a review copy! Imagine how much free publicity Kieran would give You Can’t Say That! if I had actually had the publisher send him a review copy!

]]> http://crookedtimber.org/2004/04/21/freebies/comment-page-1/#comment-25872 Phill Wed, 21 Apr 2004 15:22:09 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/wp/?p=1445#comment-25872 I don't get it, I got review copies of books long before I even started a blog. Publishers have a list of people they consider influential in a given field and 'review' copies get sent. Even though most of the people who receive them never write a review. Of course the big problem here might be that publishers in the social sciences are rather less free with their review copies. If you have a print run of a few hundred you are not going to have the same number of review copies you would for Bruce Schneier's latest crypto book with a print run of a gazillion. I don’t get it, I got review copies of books long before I even started a blog. Publishers have a list of people they consider influential in a given field and ‘review’ copies get sent. Even though most of the people who receive them never write a review. Of course the big problem here might be that publishers in the social sciences are rather less free with their review copies. If you have a print run of a few hundred you are not going to have the same number of review copies you would for Bruce Schneier’s latest crypto book with a print run of a gazillion.

]]> http://crookedtimber.org/2004/04/21/freebies/comment-page-1/#comment-25871 Amanda Butler Wed, 21 Apr 2004 14:03:00 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/wp/?p=1445#comment-25871 Can't academics hit up their friends for free review copies of their books? Publishers sometimes ask authors if there are any particular publications or people from whom they'd really like a review. So to break into the free review copy world, ask your friends who are publishing to list <i>NYT</i>, <i>Am. J. Pol. Sci.</i>, my buddies Joe and Mike. . . Now I just need to figure out how to convince anyone to give me free books. Can’t academics hit up their friends for free review copies of their books? Publishers sometimes ask authors if there are any particular publications or people from whom they’d really like a review. So to break into the free review copy world, ask your friends who are publishing to list NYT, Am. J. Pol. Sci., my buddies Joe and Mike. . . Now I just need to figure out how to convince anyone to give me free books.

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