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ANNOUNCEMENTS
1. PLEASE REPORT ERRORS TO THE
AUTHOR
Please help improve the quality of
this free resource by reporting any errors or omissions you find to the
author at bmajoros@duke.edu. Comments posted on some
random internet forum won't
improve the book.
Concrete suggestions communicated directly to the author will. Because this is a free
resource, the rapidly growing community of readers (see below for
numbers) will benefit from
your suggestions and will be eternally grateful to you and hold you in
great esteem. And you'll get your name added to the
Acknowledgements!
2. CURRENT
STATS
The web edition is currently at 16
chapters, comprising 97 sections and 266,588 words,
with 662 illustrations. When printed in 12-point font it
comes to 926 pages. Total donations from readers is
currently at $255.00 US (Alan L., Syd
P., Bruce J., James J., Dorris S., Rick B., and Carl A. have
the distinction of being the very first financial contributors!
Thank you!).
Monthly page views for 2010 are shown below. Counts are for
chapter pages only, and don't include the cover page, preface, table of
contents, or other front-matter. December's hit count, including
table of contents and other front-matter, was 26,366.
3. STATUS OF
THE PRINT EDITION
Many readers have asked—and
continue to ask almost daily—when a print edition will become
available. Unfortunately, due to the extreme length (900+ pages),
publishing this work as a full-color print edition is simply not
economically feasible. I am therefore planning to self-publish a
very
short pocket guide that covers only the most basic aspects of digital
bird photography, for use by novices in the field. This will be a
very
small, very cheap (~$10 US), black-and-white, 200-page
paperback—literally a "pocket guide". I don't plan to make
any profits from this whatsoever, because I want to share the
information as freely as possible. Please click HERE
for details.
This pocket guide is in no way a
substitute for the full book. Note that this web edition will remain free,
irrespective of the status of the print edition.*
*That means free access, not
copyright-free. This is a
copyrighted work (you can click here
to read the fine print). HOWEVER, if you're an
educator and would like to
use the book in your classes, that can be certainly be arranged.
And if you happen to work for a nonprofit or wildlife conservation
organization, I can probably let you use some or all content for
free. Just drop me
an email.
You can proceed to the table of
contents by
clicking the link below:
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