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Buddy -- it's your job. If you're TT this is just part of the hustle of an academic career. You get paid by your employer already, and your scope of work includ
by bomewish 3y ago
Buddy -- it's your job. If you're TT this is just part of the hustle of an academic career. You get paid by your employer already, and your scope of work includes publications (which includes books). The publisher should be able to recoup their costs but it shouldn't be a profit center.
- anonzzzies 3y agoI think this is what professors/teachers tend to forget; get up in arms about your salary, don’t whine about your side hustle income. If you would be working for a corporate, it could well be that all that belongs to the company; it is about the subject of your job, it gets used at your job; it is your job, why do you believe you should be compensated extra for it? I am from a time and country where syllabi were written by the professors and were free with the course (you paid a few cents for the printing/paper). Those were thick stacks of paper and they were free. Sure it could’ve been better; they could’ve been free as in speech, but at least they were free as in beer. That is your job and you already get paid for it.
- akasakahakada 3y agoI gonna say the exact same thing. Most of the time researchs are funded by either cooperate or government. Especially when you are receiving supports from the government, keeping the results behind a pay wall should be considered illegal.
- jpalmer 3y agoThis is very much college/program specific. My tenure track wife has tried with two different different universities to get tenure credit by writing an open access text book. In both cases (R1 programs) neither would recognize anything except 1st/2nd author publications in peer reviewed journals. They would not recognize textbooks.