[Air-L] book announcement

[Michael Gurstein]

Since the Internet and ICTs overall reduce the cost of information/text
reproduction, storage and distribution to very close to zero and the
content/reviewing/editing is almost all done by volunteer labour, I'm
wondering what the value added is of "academic publishers/publishing"...
whether for "Handbooks" or journals or...?

M

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[mailto:air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Alex Kuskis
Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2011 11:02 AM
To: 'Alan Sondheim'; 'Charles Ess'
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Subject: Re: [Air-L] book announcement


FWIW, having worked for John Wiley as a Manager of Trade & Professional
Books for several years, I'm not the slightest bit surprised by their
pricing. Even if it's about the last book publisher still owned by its
original founding family rather than a media conglomerate, their only
commitment to scholarship is to make money from it.......Alex 

Alex Kuskis, PhD
Adjunct Professor
MA Program in Communication & Leadership
School of Professional Studies
Gonzaga University
http://mcluhangalaxy.wordpress.com/about/ 

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[mailto:air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Alan Sondheim
Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2011 8:21 AM
To: Charles Ess
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Subject: Re: [Air-L] book announcement


This sounds excellent, as far as it goes, of course; the problem arises if 
one tries to get the entire book. There are a lot of open source academic 
publications online; I'm surprised that Wiley et. al. charges so much, 
given this. POD is not all that expensive, by the way, as Lulu and other 
venues show.

Thanks, Alan

On Wed, 9 Mar 2011, Charles Ess wrote:

> well said and to the point - exactly.
> That said: what is to prevent anyone from contacting an author whose 
> name s/he notices in a table of contents and asking for a copy of a 
> given
chapter
> or article?
> Without speaking for anyone else - this is a practice I engage in, as 
> both requester and sender. It is also true in my experience that most 
> authors
are
> (generally) happy to respond positively to such requests, most 
> especially under the sorts of circumstances you describe. Obviously, 
> we want our work to be read and critically evaluated - not 
> sequestered. An advantage of this practice, in my experience, is that 
> it sometimes fosters helpful dialogue and creative collaboration 
> between scholars who otherwise will not likely meet. Not an ideal 
> solution, perhaps, but perhaps not also such a bad one?
>
> My two bits - and please keep throwing in yours!
> - charles
>
>
[...]
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