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I wonder how much of the $15.00 it costs to rent this article for 24 hours the authors of this paper will receive.

• robinhouston 15y ago
  Is that a serious question? In any case, the answer is ‘none’. The way academic publishing works, authors of papers do not get paid at all (though they may have to pay “page charges” to the publisher in some cases). That’s one of the reasons so many of us think the whole system is ripe for reform.
  • po 15y ago
    People often think that academic journals are providing the service of 'publishing' but they are in fact providing a reputation management and curating system. Not a great one, mind you. The fact that the end product is a journal is just an artifact. Actually come to think of it, small record labels provide a similar gatekeeper, tastemaker kind of role.