Great Mall of China

Palgrave is indeed offering us a contract for our book on consumerism and identity crises in China. The terms are the usual ones, meaning that the book

* will be hard-cover only.
* will retail at … well … more than 100 dollars no doubt.
* only will be bought by university libraries, not by any ordinary humans.
* Palgrave will make no efforts to actually sell the book.

This is surely what used to be called a slave contract. We the authors will do all the work and Palgrave will take all the profits. We’ll make perhaps 500 dollars US for two years of labor and they’ll make perhaps 20,000 for next to no labor at all.

Great Mall of China

Palgrave is indeed offering us a contract for our book on consumerism and identity crises in China. The terms are the usual ones, meaning that the book

* will be hard-cover only.
* will retail at … well … more than 100 dollars no doubt.
* only will be bought by university libraries, not by any ordinary humans.
* Palgrave will make no efforts to actually sell the book.

This is surely what used to be called a slave contract. We the authors will do all the work and Palgrave will take all the profits. We’ll make perhaps 500 dollars US for two years of labor and they’ll make perhaps 20,000 for next to no labor at all.