Hot take: Publishers do fuck all. Everyone can have their own book printed, and most of the repsonsibility for advertising goes towards the author anyway. So what does the publisher do then?
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ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
umbraroze@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
What do publishers do? Editing, layout, other parts of design (e.g. covers), most importantly printing, marketing and distribution.
Oh you mean what do scientific publishers do? Um… that’s a good one, huh… they just kinda take the money and leave everyone else to do the actual work?
5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
At what point can we conclude that publishers are like this intentionally?
SW42@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I guess they haven’t mastered machine learning…
… I’ll see myself out
rapchee@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
oh no, they absolutely have
C8r9VwDUTeY3ZufQRYvq@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
I came to the comments to make sure this joke had been made. Well played.
ForgotAboutDre@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Many of these springer textbooks were terrible before LLM fuckery.
JustAPenguin@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
In my experience, as a soon to be mathematics graduate, you really have to research what texts are worth investing in.
As someone who can’t focus on pdfs, I buy physical copies of texts. It’s a pain to work out what books are worth getting.
Springer has some banger publications. But it also has so pretty shit ones. In my experience, most publishers are like that. I’ll never feel bad for pirating a book first to see if it’s worth getting.
Fucking paying a week’s wage or more for slop - AI or otherwise.
fckreddit@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
This news made a lot of splash in programmers’ communities a few months back.
finitebanjo@piefed.world 3 weeks ago
I hope Oxford Publishing is still reliable source of academic texts.
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You ought to link the Retraction Watch source, OP. Fostering a culture of responsible sourcing is incumbent on all of us.