> I just don't see how these sites hope to generate any revenue. Good point. The academic publishing "sector" is definitely a very interesting domain and there

> I just don't see how these sites hope to generate any revenue. Good point. The academic publishing "sector" is definitely a very interesting domain and there is a lot of POWER in knowledge, but it is not clear what the role of a startup company would be in there. We could bring cool new technology but without wide adoption tech is useless. Mr. Price is trying the generic (and by now annoying as hell) "social network for science" approach but it is not clear that having "likes" for papers inside the academia.edu walled garden do anything for science. What is cool is the tremendous opportunity for better scientific discovery applications and the organization of knowledge. Hopefully at some point Mr. Price will //do// something interesting on that front instead of spending his time in PR mode writing guest posts for tech news sites. @Richard: Sorry bro, but the "sign up to see the PDF" really pissed me off the other day so you are in the bad books until you change that. Not cool. My guess is that the future of dissemination looks a lot like the arXiv (self-service, cheap) and that a peer review system can be bolted on top of it. Prof. Gowers was recently mentioned he heard of an initiative to build "arXiv overlay journals" [1]. [1] http://gowers.wordpress.com/2013/01/16/why-ive-also-joined-the-good-guys/ http://gowers.wordpress.com/2013/01/16/why-ive-also-joined-t...