With permission, it’s fantastic - without permission, it is no different from passing around knock-off items, in my opinion.
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Replying to @Stephen876 @adammbishop and
The presumption that academic publishing is and should be for-profit is a bit odd here. You're comparing an explicit for-profit system to one that ostensibly has a different goal.
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Replying to @Gearoid_Dubh @adammbishop and
Academic publishing has to wash its face and illicit copies undermine an already precarious business model. Not every artisan that suffers from IP theft is a millionaire
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Replying to @Stephen876 @adammbishop and
The overhead from digital publishing is vastly different than low-volume print. Further, you're only engaging the profit issue, not the issue of knowledge, accessibility, and cost. You're refusing to address the balance at all. Copyright fetishism is just bloody weird.
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Replying to @Gearoid_Dubh @Stephen876 and
I am really just saying but eBooks cost nearly as much to produce as a print version. Fixed costs all there. Print is a tiny bit. I know. It is nerdy...
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Replying to @CanaryCaroline @Stephen876 and
So we should limit availability to wealthy or connected individuals like the insufferable one that just liked your tweet? If academia has no place for disabled or poor scholars, then there's a bigger problem than profitability of university presses.
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Replying to @Gearoid_Dubh @Stephen876 and
Then don't have books. Put your work up on http://Academia.edu . or your own website. But don't hate a publisher for needing to cover their costs.
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Replying to @CanaryCaroline @Stephen876 and
Precisely what field do you think I could write in without using previously published books? Are you completely divorced from the reality I and others experience? We can't succeed without access. We can't get access without succeeding.
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Replying to @Gearoid_Dubh @Stephen876 and
And we can't publish books unless we cover our costs. I'm really sorry. I know I sound horrible. But I just don't know how to square this circle. We do try so hard to make everything available on JSTOR. Bit I know it's not available to everyone.
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Replying to @CanaryCaroline @Gearoid_Dubh and
I don’t understand why you think that it was at all appropriate to come into a grad student’s mentions to shame him over what is clearly a wider issue that isn’t his lie any other grad student’s to solve.
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You apologized to Chris but we’re more than happy to let others come and attack him over this. You complain about being pilloried and you wonder why?
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @CanaryCaroline and
Academic books are inaccessible to many, especially right now. If you think there is a problem there then you should be advocating for unis to be acquiring access rather than this. This has gone on for over a day.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @CanaryCaroline and
But given the wide response to this, you should reconsider your position and your approach.
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