Re: Bringing out-of-print math books into print

On 2008-04-23, in sci.math.research, J.S. Milne wrote:
It seems to me that this will achieve essentially the same thing as
going through Dover or AMS but will be vastly easier.

Alas, as noted already, not all the authors are alive anymore. There
is also a general benefit to new prints, of having the book generally
available in bookstores, libraries, on-line and so on, to interested
students and such like. As an example, our university library at
Tampere does not carry Simpson's _Subsystems of Second-Order
Arithmetic_ and since it's out of print there's no way to remedy this
horrible lacuna.

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