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Delusions, Illusions, and the True Costs of Digital Publishing -

(scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org): A premise of the Internet publishing revolutionaries has been that because distribution is ubiquitous, the marginal cost of content approaches zero, meaning that information should become much cheaper than it once was. In fact, it should be free once a modicum of cost is paid for — hence, the open access model, for instance, or the devalued online access prices for institutional access, for another instance.

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