• supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz
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    9 hours ago

    How Academics Are Pushing Back on the Academic Publishing *Mafia.

    Cartel?

    Just don’t call it a business, that makes it seem way less shady than it is.

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      7 hours ago

      I think Cartel and Mafia both have their merits when talking about the for-profit publishing industry.

      I would call them “leeches”. I see them like landlords. Charging you money for something basically no labour has to be done to support.

      It’s reentierism.

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    7 hours ago

    School and college bookz has been a scam for decades

    In schools corruption is done via government contracting

    In college, professors put their name on the book and then force everyone buy it.

    Parasites all around us.