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Re:Academics are being hoodwinked into writing books nobody ... by raverbashing on Sunday September 06, 2015 @03:42AM (#10177036)
And of course the question is, how much would the academic make with those sales? (I'm guessing not much)
Re:Academics are being hoodwinked into writing books nobody ... by PeterisP on Sunday September 06, 2015 @05:43AM (#10177210)
Possibly a negative amount - some of these publishers do, in essence, a classic "who's who"/vanity publishing scam where the profit comes from the author paying for a bunch of expensive copies, and they usually won't even be sold to anyone else.