• solsangraal@lemmy.zip
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    2 months ago

    if academic publishing doesn’t drastically change their bullshit busted ass business model, they’re giong to go the way of cable tv and lose all their buyers to OER. and i’m here for it. fuck elsevier and all the rest of them

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      2 months ago

      If Elsevier and the other major academic publishers are the cables in this metaphor, what is the closest equivalent to early-Netflix?