From the «awesome author tired of the machine» department:
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Title: Best-Selling Organic Chemistry Textbook Becomes Open Access
Author: janrinok
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2022 23:13:00 -0400
Link: https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=22/10/11/1814252&from=rss

canopic jug[1] writes:

Chemistry World has an article about how the best-selling organic chemistry textbook has become open access[2]. The 10^th edition of John McMurry's textbook, Organic Chemistry, will be available free-of-charge. It appears likely
that it will be under one of the Creative Commons Attribution licenses.

John McMurry's Organic Chemistry has been one of the best selling chemistry textbooks since it was first printed in 1984. Under his agreement with Cengage Learning, the book's publisher, McMurry realised he could ask for the book's copyright to be returned to him 30 years after it was first printed. Without copyright of the first edition, the publisher is unable to produce any more
new editions, McMurry notes.

[...] Now McMurry is writing the book's tenth edition, releasing it for free next summer on OpenStax, an educational technology nonprofit run out of Rice University, US. The book's ninth, 2015, edition is currently sold for around £70 in the UK and $80 in the US. The upcoming edition - and likely any future editions - will be freely available worldwide as digital download.


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