[FRIAM] of straw and steel

[Pieter Steenekamp]

from
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jun/27/profitable-business-scientific-publishing-bad-for-science

"Is the staggeringly profitable business of scientific publishing bad for
science?
It is an industry like no other, with profit margins to rival Google – and
it was created by one of Britain’s most notorious tycoons: Robert Maxwell."

On Wed, 30 Jun 2021 at 15:36, Barry MacKichan <barry.mackichan at mackichan.com>
wrote:

> Exactly. They are a prime example of what economists call “rent seekers”,
> which means they can charge far beyond what their costs would indicate. I
> would guess that the majority of their income comes from the government, as
> part of overhead clauses in grants.
>
> —Barry
>
> On 30 Jun 2021, at 9:05, Pieter Steenekamp wrote:
>
> It seems like the publisher's business model is to maximize their profits
> by selling at a high price to libraries.
>
> On Wed, 30 Jun 2021 at 03:27, <thompnickson2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Well, exactly!
>>
>> So, if your competitor is a Library who circulates documents for free,
>> What is your business model if you are charging 19 dollars?
>>
>> N
>>
>> Nick Thompson
>> ThompNickSon2 at gmail.com
>> https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/
>>
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>> It's called "The Library". Surely you have some of those near you, right?
>>
>> https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=no%3A42429544
>>
>> On 6/26/21 9:13 AM, thompnickson2 at gmail.com wrote:
>> > I don’t understand the business model.  Who actually pays 19 dollars to
>> read an article?
>>
>> >
>> > On Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 8:59 AM uǝlƃ ☤>$ <gepropella at gmail.com <mailto:
>> gepropella at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> >
>> >     Fooling the Victim: Of Straw Men and Those Who Fall for Them
>> >     https://muse.jhu.edu/article/796000
>> > <https://muse.jhu.edu/article/796000>
>>
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