This is a very half-baked idea, but perhaps a compromise would be to make the text content free to access and reserve PDF downloads for subscribers or paying cu

This is a very half-baked idea, but perhaps a compromise would be to make the text content free to access and reserve PDF downloads for subscribers or paying customers. Ideally the content would be presented through something like eLife's Lens project. [1] [1]: https://github.com/elifesciences/lens https://github.com/elifesciences/lens