In a typical economic market for consumer goods, money flows in one direction; goods flow in the other. A steel company provides raw materials to an auto manufacturer, which assembles cars and sells them to consumers. The consumers pay the manufacturer, which in turn pays the steel company. The market for scholarly journals is different. A scholar pours her heart and soul into writing a scholarly paper. She provides her work to an academic publisher, which collects a number of such articles and bundles them together as a journal issue. The publisher charges libraries to subscribe, but doesn’t
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