Dear Frank<div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
In short, in a world where companies collate wikipedia articles and sell<br>
them on amazon, </blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes. Anyone can do this because wikipedia articles are openly licenced. This is a good thing. People are happy with paying for a hard (paper) copy of something. Printing on real paper, with real ink, and real delivery costs money. This is no bad thing.</div>
<div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">why wouldn't there be a market for commercial OA reprints?<br></blockquote><div><br></div>
<div>Indeed there probably is a market for paper copy OA reprints. There is nothing wrong with this. But instead of one company having a monopoly over the provision of these hard-copy reprints, perhaps it is fairer that the customer can choose which company prints a paper copy of this open material? They can choose the quality of print, the weight of the paper, and print-on-demand companies can compete to provide this service. </div>
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(And, if someone wants to sell them, e.g., as book-on-demand, at least<br>
it should be the OA publishers and authors themselves...)<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Why? I don't understand this? I think anyone should be allowed to provide the service (printing). I don't see why one publisher, who may be very expensive, and poor quality, should be allowed a monopoly over printing academic material that is openly available on the internet.</div>
<div><br></div><div>my $0.02</div><div><br></div><div>Ross </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> </div></div>-- <br>-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-<br>Ross Mounce<br>PhD Student & Open Knowledge Foundation Panton Fellow<br>
Fossils, Phylogeny and Macroevolution Research Group<br>University of Bath, 4 South Building, Lab 1.07<br><a href="http://about.me/rossmounce" target="_blank">http://about.me/rossmounce</a><br>-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-
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