Actually, it's an interesting pricing model... "Perpetual access" to the book is available for $745. If you're planning to be researching the digital divide for another 15 years that's an expensive $50 a year. But for young people with 40 years of fighting the digital divide ahead of them it's a bargain at less than $20 a year. What's not clear to me is why buying the hard cover edition doesn't grant "perpetual access". Disappearing ink? bg On 17/09/2009 16:56, Andrew Calabrese wrote: > Wow. That price makes the book a laughing stock! > > > On Sep 17, 2009, at 1:35 PM, Robin Cheesman wrote: > >> Honestly, I find it somewhat contradictory to believe that a book >> priced between $500 and $1000 can contribute much to overcoming >> digital divides. In any case, the perspective will hardly be from >> below ... >> >> El 17-09-2009 21:29, Martha Wallner escribió: >>> FYI - http://www.igi-global.com/reference/details.asp?id=34612 >>> Description: >>> Recently, rapid developments in the digital divide have attracted >>> the attention of both the academic and political worlds due to the >>> reduction of information gaps. >>> The *Handbook of Research on Overcoming Digital Divides: >>> Constructing an Equitable and Competitive Information Society* >>> presents a comprehensive, integrative, and global view of what has >>> been called the digital divide. Collecting an international >>> collaboration of experts, this Handbook of Research offers policy >>> makers, academicians, managers, and researchers a complete reference >>> source to the interactions, evolutions, and policies developing >>> within the field. > -- | Bruce Girard | www.comunica.org | | tel: +598 2 410.2979 | mobile: +598 99 189.652 | | Dr. Pablo de María 1036 | Montevideo, Uruguay |