Hi to everybody!! Just wanted to ask you about free ebooks on the internet. It is true that every author make his books to gain some money, right. But also it is true that knoledge should be free. So, in my own humble opinion, government should pay authors for their books and such books would be distributed all around for free. I'm asking you this because of this site: http://missmathbooks.blogspot.es/ . It is supposed that it is like a "storage" of many books about mathematics (all of them to download for free). So I would like to know about your opion.
your opinion about free math books on the internet
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about downloading math ebooks for free
Yes. I think you are right. My point is that be paying for books (I mean, just great books) would be part of paying for people education. It can be seen like an investment for the country. Books are not drugs. Downloading books for free having no permission by the author is illegal of course. Moreover United States do have a better education level compared with many other countries. The question is how can I contribute to develope science if I have no access to the information I need. Do I have to pay for it?. I know there are many places for accessign such information (libraries, museums, sites on the internet, etc). Is it enought?. Probably in the USA. That's not the same thing in other places in the world. If you take a look on the books that are tipically downloaded from the Internet you will see that they are good books. Specifically I'm talking about science books. They are often written by people who work for education. Where do they work? I think they work at universties or schools. Who pay money to them? The institution I suppose. Is it part of their job to produce a book? I don't know, but it would be a good idea. So, how might government be part of some solution to this problem?. I don't know. Well, sorry, I'm just saying what I think. Thanks for your opinion.
Yes. I think you are right. My point is that be paying for books (I mean, just great books) would be part of paying for people education. It can be seen like an investment for the country. Books are not drugs. Downloading books for free having no permission by the author is illegal of course. Moreover United States do have a better education level compared with many other countries. The question is how can I contribute to develope science if I have no access to the information I need. Do I have to pay for it?. I know there are many places for accessign such information (libraries, museums, sites on the internet, etc). Is it enought?. Probably in the USA. That's not the same thing in other places in the world. If you take a look on the books that are tipically downloaded from the Internet you will see that they are good books. Specifically I'm talking about science books. They are often written by people who work for education. Where do they work? I think they work at universties or schools. Who pay money to them? The institution I suppose. Is it part of their job to produce a book? I don't know, but it would be a good idea. So, how might government be part of some solution to this problem?. I don't know. Well, sorry, I'm just saying what I think. Thanks for your opinion.
free math books to download
And you discovered that truth how? By coming to a site that provides math help without charging money and by referencing a site that provides math texts without charging money, empirical proof that your "truth" is not universally valid? The way people discover such "truths" is by introspection. So this "truth" tells us that you value money above all else but says nothing about the values of others
Well. What I meant is that this site provides math texts without charging money but the site's author is not the book's author. So, accordingly with many forums, even with the rules of this one , what he is doing is ilegal and they erase the invitations to the site. That was the motivation of asking.
"Please prove this assertion"
I think knowledge should be free in the context of buying books, specifically science books. Not all people have enough money to buy books. If books are distributed without any charge, everywhere, then it is easier to develop more knowledge and improve the science. So I would say that this site:
http://missmathbooks.blogspot.es/ is a great example of contributing to knowledge.
Why? If knowledge SHOULD be free then why should the government directly or the taxpayers indirectly pay authors or teachers or doctors or anyone else to do what they should provide freely?
This would be so because it would encourage people to "share their knowledge". But this is not very clear to me because there are many kinds of authors and many teachers work for private institutions. So I don't know how can the government might do something to it.
What I really wanted to know is your opinion about downloading books from this kind of sites. Do you really consider this ilegal?
:neutral:
And you discovered that truth how? By coming to a site that provides math help without charging money and by referencing a site that provides math texts without charging money, empirical proof that your "truth" is not universally valid? The way people discover such "truths" is by introspection. So this "truth" tells us that you value money above all else but says nothing about the values of others
Well. What I meant is that this site provides math texts without charging money but the site's author is not the book's author. So, accordingly with many forums, even with the rules of this one , what he is doing is ilegal and they erase the invitations to the site. That was the motivation of asking.
"Please prove this assertion"
I think knowledge should be free in the context of buying books, specifically science books. Not all people have enough money to buy books. If books are distributed without any charge, everywhere, then it is easier to develop more knowledge and improve the science. So I would say that this site:
http://missmathbooks.blogspot.es/ is a great example of contributing to knowledge.
Why? If knowledge SHOULD be free then why should the government directly or the taxpayers indirectly pay authors or teachers or doctors or anyone else to do what they should provide freely?
This would be so because it would encourage people to "share their knowledge". But this is not very clear to me because there are many kinds of authors and many teachers work for private institutions. So I don't know how can the government might do something to it.
What I really wanted to know is your opinion about downloading books from this kind of sites. Do you really consider this ilegal?
:neutral:
I think that sharing the knowledge and base online is a great way to let people be familiar with certain domains that they are not well versed over, to begin with.
Though you could argue that there are some authors who are not really eying to share the knowledge but rather bid toward being known in the area of study. There are certain rules that have to be followed still.
Though you could argue that there are some authors who are not really eying to share the knowledge but rather bid toward being known in the area of study. There are certain rules that have to be followed still.