Comment on Ahoy me hearties
feannag@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks agoI think academia is entirely different from news. This is research often funded with public money where the article fees aren’t going to the author. Seems a lot more reasonable to demand that the public should be able to read it for free.
T156@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
And in some cases, the author also paid the publisher, so they’re dipping into things from either end.