I’m one of the editors of the book. Just wanted to confirm everything Toby and Pablo said. It’s fully open-access, and about to be sent off for production. So while that doesn’t give us a firm release date, realistically we’re looking at early 2024 if we’re lucky and … not early 2024 if we’re not lucky.
The text of the book is almost completely finalised now, and my guess is that it will be out early 2023 (print publishing is usually slow). It is an academic book, published with Oxford University Press, and I think it will be open access too. My guess is that sales will be only the tiniest fraction of those of WWOTF, and that free downloads will be bigger, but still a small fraction.
I can confirm it’s open access. I know this because my team is translating it into Spanish and OUP told us so. Our aim is to publish the Spanish translation simultaneously with the English original (the translation will be published online, not in print form).
When is the release date for the book? Around many copies are you planning on selling e.g. compared to WWOTF?
I’m one of the editors of the book. Just wanted to confirm everything Toby and Pablo said. It’s fully open-access, and about to be sent off for production. So while that doesn’t give us a firm release date, realistically we’re looking at early 2024 if we’re lucky and … not early 2024 if we’re not lucky.
The text of the book is almost completely finalised now, and my guess is that it will be out early 2023 (print publishing is usually slow). It is an academic book, published with Oxford University Press, and I think it will be open access too. My guess is that sales will be only the tiniest fraction of those of WWOTF, and that free downloads will be bigger, but still a small fraction.
I can confirm it’s open access. I know this because my team is translating it into Spanish and OUP told us so. Our aim is to publish the Spanish translation simultaneously with the English original (the translation will be published online, not in print form).
Nitpick, I think you meant 2024 instead of 2023 (unless you are planning on doing some time-travelling!).
Quite right!