> There is no profit in it I don’t know that I’m 100% convinced by this. Elsevier makes like 40% profit margins, and their primary contribution to researchers

> There is no profit in it I don’t know that I’m 100% convinced by this. Elsevier makes like 40% profit margins, and their primary contribution to researchers is prestige lock-in, basically. Scientific publishing is in many ways stuck in the previous century. There are plenty of interesting opportunities to build technology to make that entire ecosystem more awesome, especially as funding agencies increasingly require open access publication. Maybe there’s still not enough to build a stable company, but I took your reaction as a bit fatalistic