We reflect on peculiarities and challenges we increasingly encounter in academic publishing with book presses and journals. First, we assess decreasing professional standards among commissioning editors with presses and managing editors with journals, including editing avoidance and peculiar reviewing practices. Second, we examine problems that result from the profit motivation of corporations that own and operate most of today’s presses and journals. These include problems stemming from lowest-bid, outsourced copy-editing and introduction of journal manuscript software that assigns not only more digital labor to scholars upon submission, but also more responsibility to manage risk. Third, we reflect on possible remedies and alternative strategies, including recognizing and rewarding presses that are holding out against these trends. We hope to suggest to (especially junior) scholars that their similar experiences are not unique or random and that these trends are mostly recent inventions of a corporatized academic publishing industry and are not without alternatives.

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学术出版与公司化：对当今出版社和期刊的专业性、利润和特殊性的反思

我们反思了我们在图书出版社和期刊的学术出版中越来越多地遇到的特点和挑战。首先，我们评估了出版社委托编辑和期刊执行编辑的专业水平下降，包括避免编辑和特殊的审稿做法。其次，我们研究了由拥有和经营当今大多数出版社和期刊的公司的利润动机所导致的问题。其中包括最低出价、外包文案编辑和引入期刊手稿软件所产生的问题，这些软件不仅在提交时为学者分配了更多的数字化劳动力，而且还承担了更多的风险管理责任。第三，我们思考可能的补救措施和替代策略，包括认可和奖励那些反对这些趋势的媒体。