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From: "Todd A. Farmerie" <>
Subject: Re: Off-Topic Reply to RE: On Douglas Richardson's new books
Date: Wed, 01 May 2002 13:05:42 -0600
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wrote:


> I find it very hard to understand a 'professional' writer who proudly
> announces that he is not paid anything at all for the contributions he has
> made to many successful journals. This is not a matter for pride -- it is a
> matter of bad management and the failure to have good enough business vision
> to make it pay.


And I find it hard to understand people whose world view is
limited to how much money they can make. The majority of
scholarly articles, not just in genealogy, are not paid for. In
fact, in science, one has to pay a significant page-charge to
have one's material published. The world of scholarship is full
of these people, fools all, who are guilty of such bad business
vision, because they are not looking at the world through
green-colored glasses.

taf

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