This trend is not only seen in case of research literature but also seen in case of other literature too especially related to such areas as religion, philosophy, spirituality, history, etc. The likely reasons are:
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- Many of the personnel being common man are self contented (happy guy as they are) and do not want to struggle a mile ahead (I believe it is not wrong always!), they retain their comfort zone.
- Literature relates to intellectual activity, one' capacity, one's areas of interests and need of the hour.
- Overall the the percentage of people who make purchases of books/literature for reading is very small, save great souls like Dr. Ambedkar.
- Just think what is the % of people who purchase and read the literature like Geeta, Upanishads, Vedas, Tukaram Gatha (Marathi), Dnyaneswary (Marathi), Dasbodha (Marathi), Patanjali Yoga sutras, etc. Some charitable work is however done by some agencies such as free Bible books distribution, etc.
- Research literature is a narrow but in depth study area wrt variety of nano areas that normally goes tangential to over 90% population. Who will purchase such books? Why?
- In general one can say public weighs the real life (mundane world) relevant value, in terms of one's optimum utilization/benefits, of the available literature.
- And lo! digitization has added fuel to this.
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Subject: Re: [MTC Global] Why academic publishers convince scholars to write books no one can buy
Thank you Prof. Dutta,
This question is always in my mind.
I wonder millions of research articles/books being published by universities of well repute, but not read by common people.
One of the article written by German professor says 90% of the research articles are not read by the people who could use it for making a change.
Some scholars may give an answer to this?
On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 6:01 PM, Prof. Bholanath Dutta <bnath.dutta@gmail.com> wrote:
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