• Deceptichum@quokk.au
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    4 months ago

    Fiction writers deserve to be paid but not academic writers?

    Or is it that science should be free but culture should be gate locked?

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      4 months ago

      It’s because the people making money off most academic papers are not the authors, rather the journal/conference they likely had to pay to publish in. Textbooks are a different story though.