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This doesn't really make sense - what was stopping them from raising prices before, if people are really willing to pay 3-4 EUR more?

You're being downvoted, which is a bit harsh. However, you are thinking about this as a practical problem, when it is actually a mathematics exercise. The distinction comes natural…

Science funding is extremely competitive. Why would it be rational for EU researchers to take on additional risk?

> With iMessage, Facetime, Filefault, if it failed, you were were no worse off than if you used something else. In this case, you actually are. What would someone be better off usi…

He or she is quoting Good Will Hunting, I believe.

Your "clerks" are usually academics, actually.

So many of these discussions take it for granted that publishers don't do anything of value. This blog post, by an open access advocate, was for me very illuminating on what value …

Probably a researcher in Senegal has access through this: http://www.research4life.org/about/

Thanks! It's a good idea, but I can see why it was hard getting funding - it's a difficult market to enter: a lot of people are trying to do this, including large well entrenched c…

Feel comfortable sharing one idea? Just curious, completely understand if you'd prefer not to.

It's a record label for startups.

This is a point release.

" I do not deny that Austrian economists have made valuable contributions to economics. Rather, as the sequel will argue, I maintain that: (a) The effort to rebuild economics along…

So, the post was taken down. Idly curious, I checked if Google had it cached. The post was there, but the text was very strange. Unless it was written like this (seems hard to beli…

Apple is in general a premium brand, not a luxury brand. The Apple Watch Edition is their first foray into luxury brand territory, See: http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2009…

You're also assuming a specific sense of justice - you're assuming that the utility of money is linear. (That is, giving up $10 is the same to someone earning minimum wage and to s…

Journals are communities of respected scientists.

I was a bit confused as to how an article published by Wiley could even be on an Elsevier site, but it seems that the journal is transferring from Wiley to Elsevier. Guess they mes…