[MD] An MOQ based political system

[MarshaV]

Greetings Platt,

I offer this for your consideration.  It's a comment I extracted from 
an interview, conducted by Daniel Blue, with the Nietzschean scholar, 
Christa Davis Aumpora:

	http://www.nietzschecircle.com/interview.html

DB: I had no idea that it was that hard to republish works. That 
strikes at the heart of what might seem a purpose of academia.

CDA: Right. The purpose of a university press used to be to identify 
and publish the very best quality research it could find without 
regard for its financial viability. In those days you knew that 
university presses didn't have to direct their acquisitions decisions 
based on marketing considerations. Now university presses have a 
requirement to be financially self-sustaining, so increasingly, 
marketing decisions are playing a role in acquisitions decisions. And 
as for journal publishing, Blackwell owns very many of the quality 
philosophy journals, and since it is a commercial publisher, and so 
its very reason for being is to make money and as much as it can, it 
can name its price. It's very hard to escape, and that was my greatest nemesis.


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Marsha