Planets, Stars and Stellar Systems: Volume 2: Astronomical Techniques, Software, and Data. (Amazon page)
A data mining book I am unlikely to ever see.
Why? The “discount” price at Amazon saves me $93.36. That should be a hint.
List price? $509.00, discount price: $415.64, for a 550 page book.
From the description:
This volume on “Astronomical Techniques, Software, and Data” edited by Howard E. Bond presents accessible review chapters on Astronomical Photometry, Astronomical Spectroscopy, Sky Surveys, Absolute Calibration of Spectrophotometric Standard Stars, Astronomical Polarimetry: polarized views of stars and planets, Infrared Astronomy Fundamentals, Techniques of Radio Astronomy, Radio and Optical Interferometry: Basic Observing Techniques and Data Analysis, Statistical Methods for Astronomy, Numerical Techniques in Astrophysics, Virtual Observatories, Data Mining, and Astroinformatics.
Given the cross-fertilization between fields on data mining techniques, Springer could profit from changing its “price by institutional subscriber base” policies.
But that would require marketing of titles to readers, not simply shipping them to customers who put them on shelves.