Comment on EU ready to back immediate open access without author feesComments−guyomes3yThis is an interesting related letter [0] from Don Knuth in 2003. Don Knuth was part of an editorial board that resigned from a journal out of protest to the pricing policies of the publisher. The letter gives detailed arguments.[0]: https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/joalet.pdf−theage3yIn short, excessive pricing and bundling undermines dissemination of knowledge.
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This is an interesting related letter [0] from Don Knuth in 2003. Don Knuth was part of an editorial board that resigned from a journal out of protest to the pricing policies of the publisher. The letter gives detailed arguments.
[0]: https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/joalet.pdf
In short, excessive pricing and bundling undermines dissemination of knowledge.