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A few days ago, I finally posted my belated reaction to the AAP’s position on a possible government mandate to make all articles published from publicly funded research freely available to the general public. I was not aware at the time but some reactions to the AAP’s position had already been published when I [...]

This post is a short comment about why I want to use ebooks rather than paper books and why I’m currently not jumping to buy the ebook solutions offered.

Just after posting yesterday about how the AAP uses dubious rhetoric to try to preserve its current power and revenue in the domain of scholarly publishing, I learned of a new alliance dedicated to corrupting public policy in favor of copyright holders called the Copyright Alliance. I examined their list of members. What [...]

The AAP is trying, like the RIAA and the MPAA, to force time to stand still with dubious logic and a general hijacking of public policy. In this post, I show how their attempt at protecting their obsolete business model is flawed. Specifically, I show the flaw in their objection against the proposal that publications from all governmentally funded research should be available at no cost.