@jayarava
I've just spent the last half hour trying to find a way to buy a copy of Old School Emptiness, as both your mentions and a review at the Cambridge site make it seems like something I'd get a lot out of. None of my usual methods, like finding a seller via the ISBN number, is working.
Since you're apparently acquainted with the author, I thought I'd ask if you have any suggestions that would help me purchase the book. Digital format is ideal for me but I can certainly settle for physical paper if need be.
Thank you.
@AndyLowry Matt (aka Huifeng) generously gave me a copy. He works at Oxford University now, maybe email him directly and ask about it.
I doubt it's digital.
@jayarava
You know, sometimes the publishing industry thing is really annoying. It's like publishers would really rather not be bothered with little things like selling books. I've spent I don't know how much time trying to track down things even from (relatively) known names and have hit brick walls more often than I want to think about. The title will go out of print after 37 minutes, even though the reason it's out of print is because they sold out of it.
And then the less-well-known names, well, fuhgeddaboudit. Why the hey can't I just pop over to the website of whoever the publisher of Mr. Orsborn's book is and order a copy? It's not like it was written fifty years ago, it's recent. If it's published by a university, couldn't they at least support an in-house author? No wonder Amazon is so successful at providing self-publishing on-demand services! If, god forbid, I should ever want to publish something, that's the sort of setup I would want.
Though I'm a bit ashamed to admit to it, I have, after exhausting all other avenues, downloaded PDFs of books I'm desperate to read from countries that have different copyright laws and make it easy to do that. It shouldn't have to come to that.
Whew, rant over and I feel so much better now.
