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Worship The Satan .... The Accuser ... The Devil ...according to the Jew-Book for children; the one the dualistic sheeple worship. This too a plagiarizing of older texts. Not quite a plagiarising of older texts more an adopting and adapting of the gods of other civilisations to help do the dirty wo...

Philosophy IS ONLY for the scholarly and academic and not for the dumb masses. You say it over and over again in albeit in slightly different ways. I don't recall saying this. If I thought philosophy was only for the scholarly and academic and not for the dumb masses, why would I participate in an ...

I would rather access Scholarly works even if they are tough difficult to master and read. I get far more out of these Authors/various Theses in the Capitalist system than a world of un-monitored books. Is a free access library (real or online) a world of un-monitored books compared to a capitalist...

Academic publishing doesn't need saving from the capitalist mire. Your suggestion that academic publishers sell their books to libraries is comical. Don't you realise that this is what already happens? When did you last see an academic book in an airport bookshop? Most of our books DO NOT compete i...

*sigh* nobody took me up on my offer to save academic publishing from the capitalist mire.... Anyone read: 'The Green Mantle of Romnticism' by Christine Avery and Michael Colebrook? Poetry and evolution belong together, in a nutshell; almost literally and very literary. http://www.greenspirit.org.uk...

I work for a university press whose mission is to spread knowledge and learning in printed and electronic forms. We are a not-for-profit organisation but we still have economic costs! Yer, I know :roll: Your views on academic book publishing are extremely naive. Don't make me hurt you! Academics an...

RickLewis wrote:Welcome! How's the monster?

Last time I heard he was wandering alone in the icy wastelands.

How are you though Rick Lewis?

What about the economic costs of your free provision and for those publishing academic texts, the lifeblood of PN Readers; recouping costs involved in that latest glossy volume that will shed further enlightenment on a particular issue/philosopher. If you were an Author you would wish to see the la...

Well books could be sold to library networks to allow publishers to cover costs and generate a little income. Readers could then get them free at point of contact. Just like it were in the old days.....

Anyone wanting to buy Jordan's autobiography is free to do so in tesco (oh naughty MS).

I suppose they could give them away.

Rortabend wrote:I love libraries (in fact I used to be a librarian) but what's wrong with book shops?

They pimp books.

Rortabend wrote:

I am completely against buying books

For what reason?

I prefer libraries to shops.

amateurphilosophynerd wrote:Especially to Mary Shelley who reminds me of the people around the French Revolution and the wondrous Mary Wollestonecraft who I have yet to read.

Vive la revolution!

Marys can be quite contrary, you'll find.

Mary Shelley, a link like the one I provided here-if you are online-means one can click on above link and see write up in Amazon Blackwells and the myriads of other Bookshops likley to stock the serious Philosophy books that Readers read as a result of reading this Magazine. I have a local Public L...

Well I went to the local library. They had a copy. I ordered it. The copy had been stolen (quality!). They ordered me a new one. I'm now reading it. I think it is great. (Is that a better justification) Would you rather be called a philosopher or a pompous arse? It's a difficult choice but to many t...