It's a sign their profit is not just from the service they provide, which is really rather simple, but from a historically grown, entrenched system that is very

It's a sign their profit is not just from the service they provide, which is really rather simple, but from a historically grown, entrenched system that is very hard to get rid of. They're basically a tax on society, and we'd be much better off if authors and their institutions made a clean break.