Beware of Author Mills

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Thinking about it now, if Uncle J were still around he would probably be hawking a book about Confucius and Plato published via Lulu or something similar. (and of course we would purchase copies just so we could rip him )

Beside the joke on that asshole Janko, I don't think it's consistent to blame the accreditation cartel on one hand, with its left-wing tenors and social alchemy heavyweights AND to ridicule the only truly free press that exists on the other.
People are so conditioned that instinctively equate the 0.6-to-1-dollars-per-page hardcover book by a so-called "academic press" with "true research" and the press anyone can have access to with a weird pass-time by deluded wishful thinkers to toot their useless ideas.
You get tons of bunk in the free press area, but you get infinitely more on the academic side...come on, how many are going to buy that $90, 200 pages book on the use of vocative in Milton's middle works?
Nothing changes...they know they're going to sell under 100 copies of it, including free copies distributed to evaluators and reviewers, but it makes a great addition to the CV.

Oh yes, the media blast case, like the new genocide-themed book or that middle-eastern-politics-first book...as if that wasn't reserved for the good old cabal of known fa/eces.