Sentences with phrase «of predatory publishers»

The journal is not merely obscure, but is published by SCIRP, a long - time entry on Jeff Beall's list of predatory publishers.

«This will pull the carpet from under the feet of predatory publishers,» Vijayraghavan says.

Not exact matches

The journal's publisher once graced Jeffrey Beall's now - defunct list of predatory journals, which extract high fees from would - be authors and publish their work without proper peer review.

In 2013, a Science investigation traced the publishers and editors of scores of predatory journals to India.

By agreeing to these more stringent guidelines, the authors write, publishers and journals would have the chance to legitimize and advertise the relative quality of their peer review process in an age when predatory journals, which falsely claim to use peer review, continue to proliferate.

Jeffrey Beall, a librarian at the University of Colorado, Denver, offers a comprehensive list of potentially predatory scholarly open - access publishers, as Redfield points out.

Our results concerning the regional distribution of authorship can be compared with the results of Xia et al. [18] who studied the authorship distribution for seven pharmaceutical predatory journals, and Ezinwa Nwagwu and Ojemeni [19] who studied 34 journals from two Nigerian - based predatory publishers.

If Amazon could compel publishers to fall in line with its predatory pricing of e-books, it could eliminate a thinly capitalized but potent (because of its physical, brick - and - mortar presence) competitor from the e-book market.

Likely the most compelling case of predatory pricing for publishers is in your local libraries e-book collection.

The reason why these companies went out of business is because of predatory pricing from the major publishers.

Dear Michael, if the traditional publishers priced their ebooks at $ 1.99, you'd label that «predatory pricing», too, for eating into the sales of grandma's self - pubbed e-book about her pet Chihuahua.

Thought by many in the industry to be one of the most misguided corporate public - relations moves a major publisher has made in recent years, the acquisition has infuriated many in the author ranks who for years have seen Author Solutions as predatory.

And publishers would have no choice but to agree because every other competitor would also have been driven out of the market by Amazon's predatory pricing?

In the Special Events hall of today's IDPF Digital Book event, a last minute guest speaker, Paul Aiken from the Author's Guild, gave a ten - minute one - sided explanation of the DoJ investigation against Apple and five publishers but he somehow managed to insert the phrase, «Amazon's predatory pricing model,» three times, despite the fact that Amazon is not named in the investigation or lawsuits.

Agency pricing, in which publishers set prices and booksellers take a fixed commission, promised to make it easier for small booksellers to compete by removing the threat of predatory pricing by retailing behemoths like Amazon.

And along with the good info, there's plenty of bad — especially from predatory vanity publishers and bogus agents.

They cleaned up the predatory practices, the massive overcharging, and the questionable marketing, and turned it into Createspace — a legitimate POD company used by LOTS of self - publishers.

i still don't equate the possible banding together of e-book publishers to fight a predatory entity bent on control

If it is, in fact, trying to drive consumer prices down (and accept short - term losses) in order to be the only (or major) supplier of books to consumers and / or reseller of books from publishers, this can be viewed as predatory pricing — perhaps good for the consumer in the very short run, but less so in the long run, since there are significant fixed costs to establishing a similar e - book / bricks & mortar presence in the market, particularly in the light of Amazon's potential willingness to drop prices enough to make business untenable for the new entrant.

Check out this warning (one of many sites with good info on this scam) about Author Solutions, a predatory vanity / scam publisher now owned by Penguin.

This is a warning to new authors who want to be published: beware the predatory publishers like Penguin and save thousands of dollars.

Loot boxes, microtransactions, season passes, DLC bundles, subscriptions and «games are a service» are all ways in which publishers can further guard against a flop which, when used in a successful game can feel predatory but can rescue a studio in times of adversity; a good example of this is Rainbow Six: Siege which has gone on to be very successful thanks to continued support through DLC, despite a sluggish start.

Last year was a troublesome year, as the publisher faced criticism over the predatory loot boxes found in Star Wars Battlefront 2, Need for Speed - Payback saturated with microtransactions, the closure of Visceral Games, and Mass Effect Andromeda's buggy release.

Still, I felt it necessary to do my part, and I've held true to my declaration that I wouldn't enable this kind of predatory BS in my gaming, so in a message to publishers out there who still think this is going to be okay: