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What benefit do the publishers provide to anyone? Why do the publishers deserve billions of dollars?
by x5n1 11y ago
What benefit do the publishers provide to anyone? Why do the publishers deserve billions of dollars?
- zmmmmm 11y agoSomeone has to coordinate the peer review process - that is, vet the trash, enforce standards, locate qualified reviewers and coordinate their feedback into digestible form. Now, in my opinion 95% of this is automatable and the other 5% probably costs about $50 per manuscript, so the current fees are certainly outrageous. However I don't think we will be doing ourselves a service to say that publishers do nothing at all. They just don't do anything comparable the value that they extract.