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These big publishing group having these business models do a great job at convincing me to subscribe to them.

Oh you subscribed to have access to this particular set of books? Oops we removed them, tough luck. I am sure your thousands of dollars were worth it.

And who even owns Wiley?

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> [Founded in 1807,] Wiley has been publicly owned since 1962. While the company is led by an independent management team and Board of Directors, the involvement of the Wiley family is ongoing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiley_(publisher)

As far as their being part of the publishing industry, it suffices only to say that they sued the Internet Archive.

https://money.cnn.com/quote/quote.html?symb=WLY

no big single majority owner. a number of funds though in the 5-9% range.

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