The issue is that these days the reprints and the editors and the staff are all obsolete. The valuable part you're pointing at is peer review, which academics d

The issue is that these days the reprints and the editors and the staff are all obsolete. The valuable part you're pointing at is peer review, which academics do for free. Then the people who have been made redundant by the information age make all the money. This isn't a both sides issue, it's very clearly one sided because all the actual work is outsourced to free labor. There's no reason to meet in the middle, these companies need to die off and distribution should be free and open.