From: "Guédon Jean-Claude" <[log in to unmask]> Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2017 09:38:46 +0000 François Rappaz summarizes my viewpoint with great accuracy: each article is unique and each article is tied to a particular journal that, ipso facto, can exercise a monopoly on this article. As a result, the global set of articles is not a market, but a collection of micro-monopolies. By owning thousands of titles, large commercial editors ensure the control of hundreds of thousands of micro-monopolies and, as a result, can pretty well do what they want in terms of pricing. Processes that appear commercial on the surface, can easily turn out to be non-market driven. Thank you for the question. Jean-Claude Guédon ________________________________________ From: RAPPAZ Francois <[log in to unmask]> Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2017 12:28:37 +0000 JC Guédon: "Librarians have another problem to confront: is it really their role to support the APC-based form of open access? My answer is that it is not. [...] If libraries withdrew APC-subsidies, they would also have more resources to craft open access in better ways, including the support of pure, APC-free, Gold publishing, presumably in conjunction with university presses." Don't you think that APCs, if paid by the authors themselves and not by a third party, could be a way to bind the publisher's services and the users of these services ? or is the scholarly publishing definitely not a market ? François Rappaz University of Fribourg