profiteers

 Jackie MacKay writes:
>
>>The battle lines remain drawn as they have always been, with
>>publishers and intermediary profiteers on the one side and
>>libraries, information, technology and users on the other side.
>
>As long as you continue to see it as a battle (and I notice you have
>left the originators out of the scenario:-) I think that the time
>frame is approaching infinite. Has the idea of collaboration,
>communication, co-operation been forgotten altogether?
>
>
>I agree - provided that the originators and the profiteers (could you
>be a little more specific about what constitutes a profiteer?...do we
>not all profit from communication of knowledge?) can join in the
>discussions..
>

Profiteer: a person who makes excessive profits, esp. by taking advantage of a shortage of supply to charge exorbitant prices.

That's from Webster's New World Dictionary Second College Edition. It's a bit out of date. Everyone knows that in the U.S. a profiteer is someone who makes a living in the private sector of health care.

Have shortages developed in the output of the publishing houses?

Arthur Bickel

Date: Wed, 15 Sep 93 0:43:05 GMT




Received on Wed Sep 15 1993 - 02:43:33 GMT