It’s more than that. Information wants to be free. This rigid selection process and tight-fisted control on who can read the papers are an anachronism. Now, we have new models for peer review and information dispersal, and these bad old publishers would license the varnish on your creaky old chair, if they could, to make money off keeping people in the dark. They no more facilitate science than a toilet facilitates water flow through the sewage system.
