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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Okay. I don’t really know how to respond to this but clearly there is something broken if grad students can’t hope to afford books (many more are worth closer to €100/£100 in my field).
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And libraries can only afford one copy and getting ebook licenses is even more expensive.
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And also academics having to front a lot of money to get a book published with them...we wanted to get proceedings of a conference published and we’d have to front €1000s for it with the major publisher where I live.
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If they are having trouble breaking even then idk what to do about that, but when I see a 200 page book that is €50 and apparently even the CEOs of these companies struggle? I don’t get it, sorry.
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That’s frustrating. Esp. when there are so many books I can’t find any more because they are out of print, or not even available in my country anywhere. Libraries should be given more money to buy books. Mine is a legal deposit for the UK and Ireland and doesn’t have them all.
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