Comments on: James Clifford's new book is too expensive /2013/11/10/james-cliffords-new-book-is-too-expensive/ Notes and Queries in Anthropology Fri, 08 Dec 2017 18:00:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.1 By: Matthew Timothy Bradley /2013/11/10/james-cliffords-new-book-is-too-expensive/comment-page-1/#comment-815681 Sun, 10 Nov 2013 02:07:42 +0000 http://backupminds.wordpress.com/?p=1207#comment-815681

Are there people out there who really want to pay thirty dollars to listen to James Clifford talk about Ishi for 100 pages? Because if so — this is the book for you.

Giggle.

]]> By: Kerim /2013/11/10/james-cliffords-new-book-is-too-expensive/comment-page-1/#comment-815680 Sun, 10 Nov 2013 01:23:59 +0000 http://backupminds.wordpress.com/?p=1207#comment-815680 This Routledge book on linguistics and the Third Reich is $152.93 for the Kindle ebook.

http://www.amazon.com/Linguistics-Third-Reich-Mother-tongue-ebook/dp/B000FA5XVG/ref=tmm_kin_title_0

What’s worse, they make a false distinction between “renting” and “buying” the ebook (you can “rent” it for $41.01) since you never really own an ebook in the way you do a paper book.

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