Classic textbooks bring renown to their authors, but students rarely read them. Walter Gratzer argues that publishers would do well to woo a new breed of textbook writer.
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Gratzer, W. In praise of lesser books. Nature 302, 165 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1038/302165a0
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