But, publishers do need money to survive, right?
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And I really bristle at people with jobs saying that grad students are thieves or in the wrong for asking for a PDF. We aren't taking money away from anyone. Any books that I love enough to read over and over I'd buy eventually, and those I just need a page ref for I'd never get
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and I would have just gone to the library to use. So all this hand wringing about publishers being directed at grad students and not institutions and academia in general for putting us in this position is pretty terrible. I'm really starting to despise publishing discourse here.
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I absolutely agree with that. But, having been a grad student (and an unfunded independent scholar), I still think it is not wrong for a publisher to point out that they need to make money. And we need to recognise that.
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Who, in any of this mess, has not recognized that?
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