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How Academics Are Pushing Back on the For-Profit Academic Publishing Industry (observatory.wiki)

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[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] canihasaccount@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Professors literally get like $0.03 per copy of a book sold. Your professors make you buy their book because no one else teaches the class like they can. It's their expertise that you're paying for when you go to college to study under them. They're making sure that you have something related to that that lasts.