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Karin Wulf

Back in 2020, at the beginning of pandemic and the 's Controlled Digital Lending, I wrote for the "The Internet Archive Chooses Readers."

Holds up, at least in predicting where we are now with the decision and also in my unalloyed appreciation for aspects but not the totality of the IA's work. scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/20

The Scholarly KitchenThe Internet Archive Chooses ReadersHow will we meet this moment of global crisis? The Internet Archive breaks glass.

"If you think something should be free, you likely don’t have a very good grasp of what it costs to produce — and who needs to be paid in the course of that production."

@kawulf
But when you have to pay $35 to a knowledge brokerage service for a 28 page article, to use for 48 hours, how much of do the editors, and authors receive for their months of research and writing and editing?
People should have a fair wage for their labor, not just acquisition, and marketing.

@wschmidt47 Hello! I've written a lot about this over the last ten years. Would recommend a few pieces like this one that breaks down labor at the expertly edited non profit org where I used to work. If it were up to me scholarship, medicine, and clean water would all be non-profit. But we'e all got different ideas about how to get to fair. blog.oieahc.wm.edu/what-does-i