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Story: Publishers lay into Google Print
Posted by: Anonymous (Wednesday 25 May 2005, 10:12 AM)
What I remember from my academic career (10 years of it before I hit the consulting trail) was constant talk about the need for broad dissemination of knowledge and this from people earning sub-average wages for hard work (I mean graduate students, Post-Docs and professors not in the "star" category). This is how research is done. Through hard labor and, well, self-denial, especially on the financial front. Now, I also remember that the conduit through which this knowledge was passing was $ 1000 (yes, thousand) yearly subscriptions to glossy scientific journals. Looking back I can only confirm my already nacsent suspicion at the time that this was (and is) a classical case of middleman and sales-driven exploitation of other people's creative abilities which begs for disintermediation. Stick to your guns, Google !
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