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If Dan Brown sells 80 million copies of The Da Vinci Code, he has probably worked something out with his publisher that he gets some amount of money per book so
by rflrob 8y ago
If Dan Brown sells 80 million copies of The Da Vinci Code, he has probably worked something out with his publisher that he gets some amount of money per book sold. If Michael Jackson sells 45 million copies of Thriller, he probably gets a cut of each sale. If, for some weird reason, a million people pay $35 to download the CRISPR gene editing paper, Jennifer Doudna is probably not getting a penny of that. It's surprising to many people not in science that the usual model of "I pay publisher $x for a bunch of bytes, then publisher gives y% of that to the person who came up with that sequence of bytes" doesn't apply in science.
- whatshisface 8y agoThat's because you have already paid for that sequence of bytes (probably with your taxes), and the journal is rent-seeking. The scientist has already been paid and now you have to pay the troll under the bridge.
- j7ake 8y agoMany papers in Nature can be found free. Here is a paper from Doudna lab published in Nature. It should be free through PubMed Central. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5918688/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5918688/