> Why do so many commenters on HN always sound so confident, yet none of them work in publishing? It's pretty simple. Most of us here are used to just download

> Why do so many commenters on HN always sound so confident, yet none of them work in publishing? It's pretty simple. Most of us here are used to just downloading "preprints" pdfs from arxiv for basically any CS/AI paper. If all papers were available on arxiv or an equivalent website for free and without forms, probably nobody here would care or complain about Elsevier et. al. Want to in addition to publishing on arxiv, publish on Nature? Sure go ahead. Want to only read papers after they've been peer reviewed on Nature. Go ahead.