Totally agree Artur.

Professor Wujastyk has often advocated for authors to use Open Source
publication platforms. I think we should all support his call.

Apart from prestige, I cannot understand from an academic perspective
why an author would choose to publish with publishers like Brill - a
for-profit company with shareholders and hunger for ever increasing
profits. I notice that Brill have never endowed a professorship in
Indology - yet they have profited from the publications in our field
for quite some time. It would seem unethical for academics to support
them - especially in the present climate where our entire field is
under attack from short-sighted governments on the one hand and
fundamentalist political groups on the other.

Indology is already in a precarious enough position, why make its
fruits even more inaccessible? There's no point being the last endowed
professor of Sanskrit publishing fabulous original research of works
if noone can read them...

Apologies for the rant.

Kind regards,
Antonio

On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 5:13 PM, Artur Karp <karp@uw.edu.pl> wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I hate to spoil the fantastic news about the two important publications.
>
> The prices. Prof. Bronkhorst's book's price ($ 199)is close to one third of
> my monthly pension. Prof. Zysk's ($ 299) - close to one half of my pension.
>
> Excellent work there, on the publishers side, but their prices exclude me,
> definitely, from their prospective buyers list.
>
> Is my University's Library going to buy the books? One cannot be certain,
> not considering financial restrictions faced by the educational institutions
> in Poland.
>
> Artur Karp
> Warsaw
> Poland
>
> 2016-04-14 8:42 GMT+02:00 Kenneth Gregory Zysk <zysk@hum.ku.dk>:
>>
>> Also from Brill but in the Sir Henry Wellcome Asian Series is my
>>
>>
>>
>> The Indian system of human marks in 2 vols. Brill, 2016. ISBN:
>> 978-90-29972-6.
>>
>>
>>
>> http://www.brill.com/products/reference-work/indian-system-human-marks
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Kenneth Zysk
>>
>>
>>
>> From: INDOLOGY [mailto:indology-bounces@list.indology.info] On Behalf Of
>> Johannes Bronkhorst
>> Sent: 13. april 2016 13:36
>> To: indology@list.indology.info
>> Subject: [INDOLOGY] New publication
>>
>>
>>
>> Dear friends and colleages,
>>
>>
>>
>> My latest book has come out:
>>
>>
>>
>> How the Brahmins Won: From Alexander to the Guptas. Brill, 2016. ISBN:
>> 9789004315198.
>>
>> http://www.brill.com/products/book/how-brahmins-won
>>
>>
>>
>> Johannes Bronkhorst
>>
>>
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