Yon second-hand bookseller is second to none in the worth of the treas — Publishing

"There is a prohibition against including multiple copies (or versions) of the same paper in the official publication of record in [IEEE] Xplore."

"The idea of progress … is that human knowledge tends continually to advance because each generation can build on the achievements of the preceding one. Yet, there is an unstated presupposition here regarding the matter of transmission. Faith in progress is based on the (very un-Socratic) assumption that wisdom or knowledge can not only be taught but can be “published” in the modern sense: written down in books in such a way as to be easily and genuinely appropriated, so that the next generation, after a brief period of learning, can begin where the previous one left off. ... In the modern period, the whole enterprise of philosophy and science has been organized around this idea of progress. The pursuit of knowledge has become uniquely “socialized,” become a team effort, a collective undertaking, both across generations and across individuals within a single generation. This has affected our whole experience of the intellectual life. The modern scholar or scientist ultimately does not—and cannot—live to think for himself in the quiet of his study. He lives to “make a contribution” to an ongoing, public enterprise, to what “we know.” And at the core of this effort at collective knowing is the modern institution of publication."

"“You’re telling me he’s too good to get published?” I was aghast. “Oh, yes, Mr. Wickham, you live in an exceedingly commercial era. Your editors understand that they cannot sell champagne to beer drinkers. They buy what sells.”"

"I published my first book in 1983. My mentor told me that publishing a book is a dangerous act. If you publish a bad book, it is a sin you will keep committing even after your death. Every time someone reads your book and takes in false information, you sin again, and this adds to your record. But maybe the opposite is also true. If you write a good book, you will continue earning merit when people read it, even after you are gone."

"Publishers are so corrupted by our money system that you cant really trust what they say."

"It is an axiom in the publishing business, however, that pseudoscience will always sell more books than the real science that debunks it."