I have no idea how long this promotion will last, but Springer is making a large number of its older science titles available for free download. I've picked a particularly interesting one (for my tastes at any rate), Cosmology for the Curious. They had quite a few other advanced physics books, along with some data management books, books on programming and a smattering of other titles. My impression is that the basic programming books and the core undergraduate science texts are not free. I spent a little time looking at the social science offerings, and the vast majority are not free. I don't really know if this is Covid related, and I also don't know how long it will last, but if interested, take some time to poke around on their main site.
Just taking a quick look at the download statistics of the various titles, I think there must have been a previous period where the social science titles were available for free (a jubilee month), but I apparently missed out on that, just like I missed out on the Brick Book sale. Too bad. Well, perhaps another time, though I certainly do not need more books to hang onto and feel bad about not reading...
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