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[Harrow, Kenneth]

dear friends

i wrote a book on space and time in african cinema and cine-scapes. i am hoping to open new ways to think about cinema using concepts of space and time from modern physics.

 it will be out with routledge next month, only in hardback (very expensive) and ebook (reasonable, especially with discount).

i hope toyin adepoju and many others on the list who are interested in science and film might find it of interest.

ken

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[Oluwatoyin Adepoju]

Fascinating Ken.

If I can get a review copy, I'll certainly chew it.

Very promising.

Thanks

Toyin

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[Michael Afolayan]

Congrats, Ken! I look forward to the book's outing. But without sounding like a broken record, may I ask, once again, who these publishers are targeting as customers - certainly not students, not anyone in Africa (except, perhaps politicians who would care less about it). Even professors in the Americas would think twice before purchasing a single book for $128+tx+S&H for a hardcopy material (I'm looking at $140 here). How do we deal with this serious situation???

Painfully,

MOA

[Patrick Effiboley]

Congratulations for this new book and please, do share the review with us.
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[Cornelius Hamelberg]

Mighty Mazel Tov! 

[Harrow, Kenneth]

i'll ask them, toyin.

don't know the policies, but will find out

ken

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[Oluwatoyin Adepoju]

It night be possible to reprint under a license for cheaper sale in Africa

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[Adeshina Afolayan]

Dear Professor Harrow,

A huge congratulations on this new book. I look forward to gaining from your deep insight into African cinema.



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[Harrow, Kenneth]

i will ask. it is routledge, a press owned by taylor and francis, a "group."  they are very big and mechanized, if i might say. so whether they actually have exceptions for small fry like me, i don't know.

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I will send a private email regarding policy matters.

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[Sabella Abidde]

Dear Prof. Harrow,

Congratulations on this new publication of yours.  Congrats!

All the best,

Sabella 

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[Harrow, Kenneth]

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[Harrow, Kenneth]

dear michael,

i worry as much as you about the price. the ebook is reasonable, and the discount helps. it comes in around $40 or maybe a bit less.

not cheap, but not ridiculously $160 priced...

the high price is for libraries. after 1.5 years, a paper version comes out.

that's the way lots of publishers are now operating, to try to cover the expenses.

i think we all have to go electric; paper is just too too expensive.

i just bought an ipad and will try to learn how to use it, and start buying ebooks.

some people manage to get their works published open access.

my hope would be that a cheaper version would be made available for african clients, but i don't know if routledge would honor that request.

i will ask them again about that

ken

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[Harrow, Kenneth]

dear toyin

i got an answer! yes, you can request a review copy. here's what they said: "Yes, we do send e-books to reviewers for free. They just need to fill in the review copy request form here: https://m.email.taylorandfrancis.com/Review_copy_request and someone will be in touch."

ken

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[Harrow, Kenneth]

thanks adeshina

ken

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[Harrow, Kenneth]

thanks cornelius

ken

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[Michael Afolayan]

Many thanks, Ken. This is a dilemma that we have to grapple with in this day and age. We can only always hope for a lasting solution.

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[Harrow, Kenneth]

i think the real lasting solution is going electronic. the costs of paper production are killing publishers, and we can dispense with physical books, much as we love love love them.

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[Oluwatoyin Adepoju]

Can we really dispense with physical books?

Thanks

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[Moses Ebe Ochonu]

Congratulations, Ken. May our scholarly imagination be this fecund in retirement. You're a model of academic adventurism and interdisciplinary inquiry. For some of us the natural sciences universe is an inintelligible foreign language we hold in awe, a bridge too far.

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