Hot take: Publishers do fuck all. Everyone can have their own book printed, and most of the repsonsibility for advertising goes towards the author anyway. So what does the publisher do then?
What do publishers do? Editing, layout, other parts of design (e.g. covers), most importantly printing, marketing and distribution.
Oh you mean what do scientific publishers do? Um... that's a good one, huh... they just kinda take the money and leave everyone else to do the actual work?
In my experience, as a soon to be mathematics graduate, you really have to research what texts are worth investing in.
As someone who can't focus on pdfs, I buy physical copies of texts. It's a pain to work out what books are worth getting.
Springer has some banger publications. But it also has so pretty shit ones. In my experience, most publishers are like that. I'll never feel bad for pirating a book first to see if it's worth getting.
Fucking paying a week's wage or more for slop - AI or otherwise.
11 Comments
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world · 80 pts · 240d
You ought to link the Retraction Watch source, OP. Fostering a culture of responsible sourcing is incumbent on all of us.
ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world · 47 pts · 240d
Hot take: Publishers do fuck all. Everyone can have their own book printed, and most of the repsonsibility for advertising goes towards the author anyway. So what does the publisher do then?
umbraroze@slrpnk.net · 69 pts · 240d
What do publishers do? Editing, layout, other parts of design (e.g. covers), most importantly printing, marketing and distribution.
Oh you mean what do scientific publishers do? Um... that's a good one, huh... they just kinda take the money and leave everyone else to do the actual work?
5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 32 pts · 240d
At what point can we conclude that publishers are like this intentionally?
SW42@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 240d
I guess they haven’t mastered machine learning…
… I’ll see myself out
rapchee@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 239d
oh no, they absolutely have
C8r9VwDUTeY3ZufQRYvq@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 239d
I came to the comments to make sure this joke had been made. Well played.
ForgotAboutDre@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 239d
Many of these springer textbooks were terrible before LLM fuckery.
JustAPenguin@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 239d
In my experience, as a soon to be mathematics graduate, you really have to research what texts are worth investing in.
As someone who can't focus on pdfs, I buy physical copies of texts. It's a pain to work out what books are worth getting.
Springer has some banger publications. But it also has so pretty shit ones. In my experience, most publishers are like that. I'll never feel bad for pirating a book first to see if it's worth getting.
Fucking paying a week's wage or more for slop - AI or otherwise.
fckreddit@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 240d
This news made a lot of splash in programmers' communities a few months back.
finitebanjo@piefed.world · 8 pts · 240d
DeltaWingDragon@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 239d
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