Two books with different titles, but...
May 31, A.S. 0007
Last week i was in Cambridge, U.K. to attend DDBJ/EMBL/GenBank International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaborative meeting held at EBI, Genome Campus south of Cambridge. After this meeting i visited three bookstores in Cambridge and bought various books, as usual. I found book written by Dr. V. S. Ramachandran, titled "The Emerging Mind". Although content seemed quite similar to one i already bought, again in Cambridge 2 years ago, any way i bought it. After returning to Japan, i compared two books.
Book 1) V. S. Ramachandran (2004) A brief tour of human consciousness. Pi Press, New York.
Book 2) V. S. Ramachandran (2003) The emerging mind. Profile Books, London
Although titles are quite different, content was almost same. In Book 1, published one year later than Book2, it was mentioned that it was first published in 2003 from Profile Books. So legally it may be OK. But British and American are almost same language, so readers may be just confused. There were some interesting differences, though. In Book 1, published in USA, index was added. I once heard that in USA, distinction between fiction and non-fiction is whether index exist or not. Because this is non-fiction, American publisher might have thought necessity of adding index. Book cover design is also much more superior in Book 1 than Book 2.
Saitou Naruya
Last week i was in Cambridge, U.K. to attend DDBJ/EMBL/GenBank International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaborative meeting held at EBI, Genome Campus south of Cambridge. After this meeting i visited three bookstores in Cambridge and bought various books, as usual. I found book written by Dr. V. S. Ramachandran, titled "The Emerging Mind". Although content seemed quite similar to one i already bought, again in Cambridge 2 years ago, any way i bought it. After returning to Japan, i compared two books.
Book 1) V. S. Ramachandran (2004) A brief tour of human consciousness. Pi Press, New York.
Book 2) V. S. Ramachandran (2003) The emerging mind. Profile Books, London
Although titles are quite different, content was almost same. In Book 1, published one year later than Book2, it was mentioned that it was first published in 2003 from Profile Books. So legally it may be OK. But British and American are almost same language, so readers may be just confused. There were some interesting differences, though. In Book 1, published in USA, index was added. I once heard that in USA, distinction between fiction and non-fiction is whether index exist or not. Because this is non-fiction, American publisher might have thought necessity of adding index. Book cover design is also much more superior in Book 1 than Book 2.
Saitou Naruya
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