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> Online publishers, meanwhile, demand extortionate per-paper fees for access I just don’t understand how they can be so shameless about it. For instance, one
by oefrha 4y ago
> Online publishers, meanwhile, demand extortionate per-paper fees for access
I just don’t understand how they can be so shameless about it. For instance, one single paper on Phys. Rev. Lett. costs $35 without a subscription. $35 for a few pages of PDF; ~100% margin for the publisher and the publisher alone. (And the publisher here, APS, is not-for-profit.) Who the fuck came up with this kind of pricing?
- morpheos137 4y agoRobert Maxwell, Ghislaine's dad. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jun/27/profitable-business-scientific-publishing-bad-for-science https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jun/27/profitable-b...
- kossTKR 4y agoLately the fringe theories that we live in a world run by absolutely perverted and demented psychos actively worshipping exploitation and sadism doesn't seem that far out when you start to connect the dots of who's who in the in the highest echelons. Then they wash themselves with philanthropy and everyone praises them. The masses are easy to steer and have no interest in the esoteric power structures or foreign worldviews of the absolute elite.
- morpheos137 4y agoPlease stop repeating Russian conspiracy theories. Here in the Democratic west we have freedom and meritocracy. Not legal corruption and nepotism. Now please return to the latest woke outrage de jour /s. In all serious the idea that the West is not profoundly corrupt in its own way is ludicrous. Were it all went wrong is not clear. I'd say probably the first Gulf War era was an inflection point but not a start. Perhaps the Kennedy Assassination or the literal defenestration of former Secretary of Defense Forestal.
- dr_dshiv 4y agoWow. Amazing article.