Laura, thank you for this very interesting and important message. I can well understand the frustration and indeed injustice that you have experienced and I'm sorry to rub it in, so to speak.
And yet in an odd way, you confirm my original posting. Just the fact that we're having this back and forth confirms that "we academics" now live in a space where this whole constellation of external influences and pulls -- some entirely legitimate and honorable, some questionable, some downright dishonest -- are in play. And it's not that this is brand new: it's been building since at least World War II. We're probably not in the best position to tell whether this last few years will look like a tipping point 100 years from now, but for example, Google Ngram first detects the phrase "corporatization of the university" in 1993, tripling in frequency from 1995 to 1996, and tripling again from 1996 to 2000 -- and at that point Google Ngram data stop. The curve hasn't turned down, I'm sure.
So with apologies for rubbing a sore spot, I'll stay with my first observation, that the issues that usually rile this list have as one distinctive feature that they're not distinctive to libraries or publishers but are part of a larger set of social changes. Seeking to mitigate their effects in one domain is worthy and important, but better to know that what we're dealing with is not just affecting that one domain.
With best wishes,
Jim O'Donnell
ASU