Author Archives: Stefan Müller

Ungluing books

There is this new crowd funding service unglue.it that can be used to make books freely available under a creative commons license.  People can wish for books. Right owners can start ungluing campaigns and then all those who wished for … Continue reading

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Akademie-Verlag and Oldenbourg bought by De Gruyter

http://www.sueddeutsche.de/f5c38c/1165340/De-Gruyter-kauft-Wissenschaftsverlage.html Let’s see how the prices of these books develop. Now Claudia Mainborn’s book about the Copula costs 65€ (250 pages). I think it is at least worth 130€ and De Gruyter should increase the price as soon as possible.

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Stuart Shieber on Economy

Interesting Post by Stuart Shieber about bundels and other nice tricks.

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Books I Did not Buy

In this post I will document books I wanted to buy but did not because the math did not work out. Mikkelsen, Line, 2005, Copular Clauses: Specification, Predication and Equation, Benjamins, 210 pages, US $158/105€ ($0,75/0,50€ per page), 15.12.2012. Lyih-Peir … Continue reading

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Summary of the Kickoff Meeting for OALI at the FU

The kickoff meeting of the OALI initiative took place on Monday 29th of October at the Freie Universität in Berlin. The participants were Anke Lüdeling (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin), Martin Haspelmath (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig), Gereon Müller … Continue reading

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