[GOAL] Re: Is $99 per article realistic and compatible with profits - or too high a price?

[Heather Morrison]

Marcin, of course there is room for new services, particularly taking advantage of the potential of the internet, and at a quick glance, TunedIT looks promising.

What I am wondering is why new services and companies should not build through voluntary participation rather than seeking public policy requiring scholars to make their work available for such purposes? I don't see a compelling public interest here, and I'm wondering if this is even a sound business strategy. Scholars are flocking to new services like Mendeley, Academia.edu, Research Gate, and Google Scholar because they find the services useful. 

best,

Heather Morrison

On 2013-01-29, at 5:08 AM, Marcin Wojnarski wrote:

> On 01/28/2013 10:44 PM, Heather Morrison wrote:
>> Question: are you saying that allowing any third party to make use of a scholar's work to advertise their own products and/or to sell their advertising services is one of the reasons people are advocating for CC-BY?
> 
> I don't know exactly why people are advocating for CC-BY. Maybe they realize that every website and every service needs some source of funding to survive, so if scholars want new - and free - academic services to appear on the web, there must be a way for these services to make a living, and allowing them to sell adverts is one of the ways to support them and let them survive.
> 
> But maybe scholars don't want new services at all. Maybe they are perfectly fine with what exists today: Elsevier, Springer and the rest of mafia? In such case, -NC doesn't hurt indeed.
> 
> Best,
> Marcin
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