Comment on Publishers are a cancer. Knowledge is meant to be shared, freely.

gi1242@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

so back in the day we needed publishers for distribution. now with the Internet, distribution is easy. but prices only went up

associate editors and referees are unpaid volunteers. typesetting is also mainly done by the authors. but prices are high because the publisher wants to profit.

there are quite a few high quality journals that are fairly priced and published by non profit publishers. these are the only journals authors should publish in …

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