Postal regulators have accepted a proposal from media giant Time Warner that would stifle small and independent publishers in America. The plan unfairly burdens smaller publishers with higher postage rates while locking in special privileges for bigger media companies.

Here’s a list of academics who have sent a letter to James C. Miller III, chairman of the Postal Board of Governors, protesting the change:

We, the undersigned, share the concerns of independent publishers and categorically support and endorse the objectives and remedies expressed in this statement. As educators and scholars, we acknowledge and appreciate the significant contribution both to the academic community and to society in general made by smaller but influential magazines, periodicals and journals, and realize the inevitable consequences, which include the loss, permanently, of a large portion of the variety and individuality, and hence the freedom, of the nation’s press, if these planned postal rate increases are indeed enacted.

Henry Abelove

Willbur Fisk Osborne Professor of English
Wesleyan University

Gilbert Allen

Professor of English
Furman University

Edward A. Alpers

Professor of History
UCLA

Sally Bachner

Assistant Professor of English
Wesleyan University

Judith Bainbridge

Professor of English
Furman University

Peter Baldwin

Professor of History
University of California, Los Angeles

Dr. John Barrington

Associate Professor
Department of History
Furman University

Calvin Bedient

Professor of English
UCLA

Lloyd Benson

Walter Kenneth Mattison Professor
Department of History
Furman University

Joseph Bernt

Professor of Journalism
Associate Director for Graduate Studies
E. W. Scripps School of Journalism
Ohio University

Jeffrey Brooks

Professor of History
The Johns Hopkins University

Carole H. Browner

Professor
Center for Culture and Health
Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior
University of California, Los Angeles

Mary Ann Clawson

Professor of Sociology
Wesleyan University

Robert Dallek

Professor of History Emeritus
UCLA

Martin Dimitrov

Assistant Professor of Government
Dartmouth College

Mary Ann Doane

George Hazard Crooker University Professor
Modern Culture and Media
Brown University

Alex Dupuy

Professor of Sociology
Wesleyan University

Daniel Fineman

Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies
Occidental College

Robert J. Fogelin

Professor of Philosophy (emeritus)
Dartmouth College
Hanover, New Hampshire

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