I do appreciate your predicament. But if a publisher can't make money to pay its costs from sales revenue, a publisher won't last long.
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Again -- no matter what I do here, I'm not paying for the book. The only difference is that I cannot go to a physical library because there is a bit of a plague on.
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Replying to @HalstedMedieval @CanaryCaroline
My options right now are 1) get an ebook from a friend 2) don't cite the book. Those are my options. Unless you'd like to tell me how much of my graduate stipend I should be setting aside for paying for academic books because I can't go to the library?
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Replying to @HalstedMedieval @CanaryCaroline
Stealing from another academic and their publisher is not okay under any circumstances
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It's not stealing, it's sharing, which is cool and fun and makes everybody happy (except you I guess)
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Sharing is when you ask the person who wrote it for use of their work. Going behind their back to ask other people to pass it on is something else. I'm happy to share my own work...
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Other people sharing my work with each other is even MORE amazing than sharing it myself! We should all be so lucky
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With permission, it’s fantastic - without permission, it is no different from passing around knock-off items, in my opinion.
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Yeah not wanting to pay for an overpriced academic book that the ones who wrote don’t even get royalties from is exactly like a knock-off Versace bag.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @Stephen876 and
Wait, it kind of is in that I don’t have a problem with either and would never be able to pay full price for the real thing? This isn’t a bad simile
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True enough. Designer items are overpriced and rely on sweatshops, the people who made them don’t get barely anything for them either and the only people who benefit are the rich people at the top. Hey you’re right, it’s very similar.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @HalstedMedieval and
I haven’t met anyone in academic publishing on movie star wages and struggling artisans also suffer from illicit copies
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