Maybe I have misread but I believe he is saying that the scanning costs are negligible compared to what they are charging/making. He mentions that when the jou

Maybe I have misread but I believe he is saying that the scanning costs are negligible compared to what they are charging/making. He mentions that when the journals were in paper that the publishers charged just enough to keep their printing up and running but now they are getting greedy and making enough money to have political clout. Bottom line is that people shouldn't make so much money off the back of unpaid academics/scholars. Personally I feel like if they charged something like 99 cents for a DRM free version of each paper (with free abstracts still of course) this might be more reasonable. Just my take though :)