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Back in 2020, at the beginning of pandemic and the #InternetArchive's Controlled Digital Lending, I wrote for the #ScholarlyKitchen "The Internet Archive Chooses Readers."
Holds up, at least in predicting where we are now with the #Hachette decision and also in my unalloyed appreciation for aspects but not the totality of the IA's work. https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2020/04/02/the-internet-archive-chooses-readers/
"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. https://blog.oieahc.wm.edu/what-does-it-take-from-submission-to-publication-at-the-wmq/