> Much of what is said about Elsevier, the worst offender, is true to a lesser extent in other paywalls. Honestly, I think it's a mistake reason about all payw

> Much of what is said about Elsevier, the worst offender, is true to a lesser extent in other paywalls. Honestly, I think it's a mistake reason about all paywalls from the example of Elsevier's paywalls. There are a lot of unique aspects to the production of academic work that are not present in other areas. Revenue is needed to fund the creation of other kinds of work, such as news reporting, and for stuff like that, paywalls are needed because other free-access revenue models frankly didn't work.