[Taxacom] Important follow-up regarding Nabu Press, etc.

[Geoff Read]

Phylum Annelida

A monograph on the Polychaeta of southern Africa. J. H. Day,
1967 British Museum. Freely available under creative commons license on
archive.org (& BHL).

Offered Nabu for $27.93 & 29.45 for the 2 vols. This is a copyright breach
(no commercial use). Claimed to be pre 1923, which it is not.

Hmm, I wonder how much 900 pages cost to print & handle?  Not a lot of
profit in it.

This was the only non public domain Polychaeta topic Nabu was offering.

I'll log in to Amazon later and warn people this is freely available
digitised. It is a very good monograph for beginners and still popular.

Geoff



On Fri, March 30, 2012 1:25 pm, Doug Yanega wrote:
> A few tidbits from various places have been coming in, and an
> interesting pattern has emerged.
>
> After checking on a variety of insect taxa on Amazon for Nabu Press
> items, I had originally done a quick search in other areas of
> zoology, and only noted the volume of Nabu offerings, for all of the
> non-insect keywords I tried (e.g., 209 results for "Nabu Press
> ornithology"). After having received some messages regarding negative
> findings of recent works being pirated, and other messages about
> metadata problems, I started looking closer, and must admit that I
> have yet to find any non-entomological works by Nabu that are not
> pre-1923, and no one has written to me reporting such cases (exactly
> the contrary - I've gotten a few messages saying there is nothing of
> recent vintage among the many Nabu offerings on topic X). I'm now
> suspicious that this may be a more limited offense than I had
> previously thought - limited to entomological publications, at least
> in terms of recent, copyrighted works being advertised and sold as
> pre-1923 works. PLEASE, if anyone is aware of non-entomological works
> of this sort, let me know.