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Posted on June 16, 2015, in Events. Bookmark the permalink. 4 Comments.
Publishers are now reporting “chapter downloads” on books. What this means is uncertain, but having some downloads seems to be better than zero downloads. Springer began collecting this data in 1911. The following are the numbers for our 2008 biography ‘Treasure Your Exceptions.’ The Science and Life of William Bateson.
2011 278
2012 274
2013 579
2014 2,336
In the same period, my textbook Evolutionary Bioinformatics (2011), which has a lot of history, received 14806 chapter downloads, of which 6576 were in 2014.
Very true about Springer, not that they pay out on chapter downloads. I report here the chapter downloads for my Descartes-agonistes: Physico-mathematics, Method and Mechanism 1618-33, for a reason given below.
2014 1,791
2013 884
2012 87
More importantly, let me report that this book was chosen, along with two others, for detailed discussion (two hours each) at a recent meeting of the occasional Princeton/Sorbonne ‘Seminaire Descartes’, in Paris Saturday May 23. Daniel Garber, Roger Ariew and Sophie Roux were my critics. A fine time was had by all.
Just came across the details of the ‘Seminaire Descartes’ online: http://mathesis.hypotheses.org/seminaire-descartes/seminaire-descartes-6e-annee
Heading to University of Oklahoma next week for a research fellowship. Excited to be there during their ‘Galileo’s World’ exhibit. See: https://galileo.ou.edu/