Re: Special Issue of JASS Journal

[Sven N. Thommesen]

To the editors of JASS:

I welcome the invitation to submit to your new journal. Its subject matter 
is of great interest to me (and not just the special issue advertised.)

I feel I should point out one obvious irony, however: you want to run an 
issue on electronic commerce, yet your journal (from what I can gather at 
its web site) will be a traditional ton-of-paper-sent-through-the-mail 
publication!

Let me humbly suggest that you wake up and smell the roses: dispense with 
your expensive traditional publisher, post your journal matter on the web 
for download, and charge enough to cover your editorial expenses (if 
Society memberships don't cover your costs.) Let your readers decide which 
parts, if any, they wish to commit to paper. The traditional publishing 
method is insanely wasteful, as evidenced by your suggested subscription 
prices ($150 for 3 issues!)

The whole purpose of an academic journal is (was?) the widest possible 
dissemination of scientific information, and with the distribution methods 
currently at our disposal, that purpose would seem best served by web 
publishing.

And don't worry about the journal's prestige: ultimately, it is the quality 
of the content and the integrity of the reviewing process that matters, not 
whether a 'prestige' publisher is handling the printing process ...

(My apologies to Cambridge International Scientific Publishing for raining 
on their parade ;-)

Sincerely,
Sven Thommesen
Auburn University

At 10:39 AM 9/14/99 +0300, you wrote:

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>         JOURNAL OF APPLIED SYSTEMS STUDIES
> Methodologies and Applications for Systems Approaches
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>       Special Issue on "Applications of Electronic Commerce Systems"



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