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Written by Roberto von Archimboldi on 2024-09-07 at 08:44

@brianstorms @jeffcutsinger do let us know if your sales go up now that your publisher had their way.

Here's thing about non fiction, as you know, its audience is researchers. Putting together even a short paper takes years of work and a massive quantity of reading. You do that, and have always done that, by going to the library. Even well paid tenured academics don't have the money or the need to buy thousands of books just for the half chapter that might become a footnote. The evidence given by the internet archive is that the average loan was about 20 minutes.

Losing the open library restricts access to academia to those with an affiliation to a university that can afford the crazily expensive subscriptions to the big publishers. That is really sad in itself. It is also really about Hackette et al maintaining their ability to take rent from the work of researchers.

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