I agree we don't need the publishers anymore. We have preprint services (arxiv and others), open review systems (pubpeer), sharing platforms (osf, zenodo, datav

I agree we don't need the publishers anymore. We have preprint services (arxiv and others), open review systems (pubpeer), sharing platforms (osf, zenodo, dataverse). You have Free software to handle all the manuscript lifecycle (there are a few cant remember the names). We keep the publishers because they still have some prestige and they are blackmailing university libraries. Now there is Scihub to go atound that, but of course there are ethical and legal reasons associated with its use so in my opinion thats not a long term alternative.