40 years ago, if you wanted a book, you bought it or you found it in a library. Perhaps you shared it, but you were limited to photocopying or physically moving that book around. Same for grads students as for professors.
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Then she would have said something to me a few weeks ago when I needed something, or to all the other scholars talking about the free PDFs. I don't think that Chris thinks that publishers shouldn't get paid. Her point was clearly trying to act like he was preventing 2/
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People from getting paid because he requested a free copy of a book from the publisher she works for, when he never would have bought the book in the first place if he could go to the library. 3/3
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Unless I'm mistaken, yes, I've seen the original tweet - I think she is just pointing out that books don't get published out of nothing, and there's money involved? Am I seeing the wrong tweet?
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I really think the issue is not publishers, but access. Why are we not angry that precarious scholars don't have access? I don't follow this bit.
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