> > "Freely available" is not the same thing as "free."
>
> I did not say that it was.
I see. I assumed when you countered the horrendouus $3,000 price tag with your
previous offer "to make the chapters freely available on E-LIS," that you were
negating the need for cost recovery. So is it the publisher's profit margin you think
out of line?
> > Money still has to change hands at some point. And I see there are
> a
> > lot of organizations putting membership and other dollars into
> > E-LIS.
>
> I am not aware of that. As far as I understand, CILEA maintains
> the
> server. The editors work as volunteers.
Then CILEA is paying for the server space!!!! My point is, someone/thing is. Nice
that CILEA can afford it.
And while E-LIS may be "freely available" now--discounting, of course, the fact
that someone/thing is paying for the internet access by which each of us gets to the
site in the first place--will it be able to do so ad infinitum? Let's hope so.
(Guess all of the other associations listed are just providing the equivalent of a
Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval. Sorry if I misunderstood.)
It's easy to forget that big bad corporate publishers absorb a lot of costs we take for
granted when singing the praises of "free availability."
I guess what annoyed me about the original message was the public slap at Marcia
and Mary for wasting their time, and the efforts of their contributors--for example,
and I quote, "most of us just don't need these articles"--when they were simply
wanting to generate more sales.
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