{"id":1528,"date":"2016-01-19T08:38:55","date_gmt":"2016-01-19T08:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harvestimaging.com\/blog\/?p=1528"},"modified":"2016-01-19T08:38:55","modified_gmt":"2016-01-19T08:38:55","slug":"solid-state-imaging-with-charge-coupled-devices-published-in-1995","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harvestimaging.com\/blog\/?p=1528","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;SOLID-STATE IMAGING WITH CHARGE-COUPLED DEVICES&#8221; published in 1995."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More or less by coincidence I recently visited the website of Springer and I found out that the book I wrote in 1995, entitled &#8220;Solid-state imaging with charge-coupled devices&#8221;, is still available.\u00a0 But the price is incredibly, unreasonably\u00a0high.\u00a0 They charge 390 Euro for the book.\u00a0 This is ridiculous !!!!\u00a0 I am writing this blog just to mention that I absolutely have no influence on the price setting.\u00a0 With this high price apparently Springer simply tells to their customers that they preferably do not sell the book anymore.<\/p>\n<p>Originally the book was published by Kluwer, and even in the early days, also Kluwer was charging quite a bit of money.\u00a0 If I remember well it was around 200 Dutch Guilders, equivalent to 100 Euro.\u00a0 20 years ago this was also a lot of money.\u00a0 But nevertheless, the book was selling quite well, and 100 Euro is still a lot less than 390 Euro.\u00a0 Unfortunately I do not have that many copies left (only 4) of the book, otherwise I could start my own little business with selling my own book for an acceptable price &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>If Springer is not ashamed of this price setting, at least I am &#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Message to potential new authors of technical books : you do not become rich of writing a\u00a0book, but someone else will !!!<\/p>\n<p>Albert, 19-01-2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More or less by coincidence I recently visited the website of Springer and I found out that the book I wrote in 1995, entitled &#8220;Solid-state imaging with charge-coupled devices&#8221;, is still available.\u00a0 But the price is incredibly, unreasonably\u00a0high.\u00a0 They charge 390 Euro for the book.\u00a0 This is ridiculous !!!!\u00a0 I am writing this blog just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harvestimaging.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harvestimaging.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harvestimaging.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harvestimaging.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harvestimaging.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1528"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/harvestimaging.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1530,"href":"https:\/\/harvestimaging.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528\/revisions\/1530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harvestimaging.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harvestimaging.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harvestimaging.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}