[BlindMath] Electronic books

[Robin Williams]

Hi,

During my PhD studies, I had the most success by contacting the authors directly to request the source files. I had more success when attempting to find newer titles - the source files for older titles are difficult to track down for obvious reasons. It's worth having an email template that allows you to change the author's name, and the name of the publication you're after. Explain to them that you have no intention of recompiling the source files and, in most cases, that you don't need the figure files, which therefore makes compilation impossible. It's also worth offering to sign a copyright agreement.
It's also worth contacting the publishers, although my success rate was lower than when contacting the authors directly.

Robin

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Hello,
I have been researching this topic and even though one would think publishers would keep LaTeX source files of the books they publish, or put their books into MathML, it seems as if the publisher doesn't have these files. The current way is to pay someone to transcribe math books into word with MathML or LaTeX.
I am sure there is a bottleneck somewhere in this process and I am trying my hardest to find where the source files are.
Thanks,


Brandon Keith Biggs <http://brandonkeithbiggs.com/>

On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 9:40 PM, Aqil Sajjad via BlindMath < blindmath at nfbnet.org> wrote:

> Does anyone have experience with e-books involving math content? I am 
> looking for some physics books and they are available in kindle. Are 
> there any ebooks from major publishers out there that are accessible?
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