I looked at the first book's site...but then I decided to read one or two book reviews at [journal], to get a sense of whether I could provide an appropriate review. Imagine my surprise in finding that [journal] is not an open-access journal--that I needed to provide membership or subscription information in order to read a book review. That makes my decision easy: At this point, I do not write reviews for non-open-access journals. - walt crawford

[That wasn't all one paragraph, but it's not worth the time to get FF to recognize that...] Anyway: too bad I won't get the free book, but principles have to enter in at some point. "If I can't read it, I won't review for it"--seems pretty straightforward in 2015. - walt crawford

Come to think of it, it's the first time in a couple of years that anybody's *asked* me to review a book. Which probably says something... - walt crawford