It’s really interesting that in this discussion none of us has actually pointed out that not only scientific publishers shouldn’t ask
authors to pay a fee for publication, they should actually pay us for the work we’ve done. If scientific publishers ask scholars to pay a fee for publication it means that their business model is wrong in the best-case scenario or they’re criminals,
plain and simple. Maybe the reason for all this is that scientific publishers shouldn’t be run as businesses? I’m just throwing this idea into the arena, since it seems that the business-like model is now all-pervading in every single aspect of human life,
even where it shouldn’t.
Dr Camillo A. Formigatti
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From: Dan Lusthaus [mailto:yogacara@gmail.com]
Sent: 26 March 2019 17:41
To: Herman Tull <hermantull@gmail.com>
Cc: Jonathan Silk <kauzeya@gmail.com>; Indology <indology@list.indology.info>
Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] question about a soliciation from publisher MDPI
Dear Herman,
It is not well known, but publishers do not have automatic rights to the copyright once a book goes into a second printing. An author has to formally request the rights at that point, but since most of us are unaware of that right, we rarely
do.
Dan Lusthaus