From: Joseph Esposito <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2013 21:44:28 -0400

Jean-Claude,

Surely you are correct that all publishers are rascals and that the
motivation for making money is as bad as Marx told it was, but I must
ask you:  Have you ever tried to get a university to pay a bill?
Presumably you are on staff somewhere and don't get to see what it
means for an organization to be inept.  The paranoid among us could
come to believe that the crazy bureaucracy of a university's accounts
payable department is actually a ploy not to pay bills at all.

I urge you not to confuse incompetence with actual malice and to leave
conspiracy theories to the followers of the Kennedy assassination.

Joe Esposito


On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 6:55 PM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> From: "Guédon Jean-Claude" <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2013 09:06:58 -0400
>
> Let me put it this way: it is not to the disadvantage of publishers to
> let a confusing landscape emerge, and for-profit publishers may even
> be a tad more proactive in this regard.
>
> Also, when commercial transactions involving profits are at work,
> fairness is not the value one meets frequently.
>
> Jean-Claude Guédon
> Professeur titulaire
> Littérature comparée
> Université de Montréal
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sally Morris <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 13:17:53 +0100
>
> I don't think it's fair to describe the aim of publishers as being to
> 'create as complicated and confusing a landscape as possible while avoiding
> any direct confrontation that would allow for the emergence of clear issues'
>
> IMHO, the publishers I know are all trying to accommodate authors' wishes as
> far as possible, while at the same time trying not to destroy their own
> business.   There is no single clear and obvious way to do this, or you can
> be sure they would all be adopting it.  They are all trying to find
> solutions to the same problem.
>
> Sally
>
>
> Sally Morris
> West Sussex, UK  BN13 3UU
> Email:  [log in to unmask]