http://www.monbiot.com/2011/08/29/the-lairds-of-learning/ or http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/aug/29/academic-publishers- murdoch-socialist
As a published author, I can only say Amen. I've published books and magazine articles as well as in the "academic" works. None of it pays very well, but the academic stuff is the worst. I've published a lot with one of the imprints of the Elsevier mentioned in the piece. If the other authors get the same as I have, the cost of authorship is pretty close to zero. As a rough estimate, the yearly sales are about $200,000. Cost of production/printing is probably less than $50,000. Pretty good room for profit, there. I've also provided stuff for Wiley. Sales might have been lower, but I got about the same amount in payment. (Wiley also published a pile of my copyrighted work without permission one time, but that's another story.) Oh, the relation to security? Well, as security professionals, we need constant input on all kinds of topics in order to do our jobs. Some of it we can get from each other. As a book reviewer, I know that many of the printed sources available to us at reasonable cost aren't worth even that amount. A lot of the latest research isn't available to us directly. (We've seen lots of discussions on new developments that run into problems because most of us can't go to the source materials.) We have lots of problems to deal with. We don't need to be hamstrung by lack of information as well. ====================== (quote inserted randomly by Pegasus Mailer) [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Common sense isn't. victoria.tc.ca/techrev/rms.htm http://www.infosecbc.org/links http://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/author/p1/ http://twitter.com/rslade _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
