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As one who is associated with a group of firms dealing with all aspects of the production, publishing and retail selling of learned, scientific and technical books, I have read with very considerable interest the article on the survey of the present shortage of scientific text-books in Cambridge carried out by the Cambridge Branch of the Association of Scientific Workers which appears in Nature of August 7, p. 209. Unfortunately some of the conclusions appear invalid.
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GRANT, J. Shortage of Scientific Text-Books. Nature 162, 416–417 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/162416b0
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