I think the open data approach, where readers do not pay, but authors do, shows who really is the customer in the academic publishing business: the authors who

I think the open data approach, where readers do not pay, but authors do, shows who really is the customer in the academic publishing business: the authors who must publish to advance in their career. It used to be that the reader, as someone who needs reliable information in a field, payed a journal so that the people could work for guaranteeing the quality of the articles. Now the authors pay the journals to rubber stamp their articles with an often cargo-culted peer review, so that they can keep receiving grants. I am all for giving free access to information; but if you want reliable information in a competitive field such as academia, where people have all incentives to cut corners, cook data, embellish results etc., you have to pay someone to do it.