As far as I could understand, the author questions about availability of a similar platform like Netflix for academia where all the journal content providers put their content and let individuals subscribe and access the content. Netflix and other platforms came into existence due to the failure of earlier business model(outdated) of content distribution that was highly challenged by piracy. Also the consumers wanted to pay for only the content they really use. The author is inquisitive of, why academic content providers can't build such platforms and are still stuck to old business model of dissemination? Regards Vinit Kumar, PhD Assistant Professor Central University of Gujarat Gandhinagar 9454120174 On Sep 9, 2017 2:08 PM, "Padmanabha Vyasamoorthy" <vyasamoorthy@gmail.com> wrote: Can some body explain this in simpler terms? Thanks Medium: Science, open access… and Sci-Hub
<https://medium.com/enrique-dans/science-open-access-and- sci-hub-1f6b49540441>. "As with the content industry, the important thing is not whether a site is open access or not: what matters is to challenge outdated business models. Content publishers began to have problems when technology developed better and more efficient ways of accessing material and they began to stop having them when a wide range of simple and relatively inexpensive ways to access content appeared: Spotify, Netflix or whatever. There is no reason why the same dynamics should not apply to academia, and that the hundreds of journals that feed off scholars and institutions with high-priced subscriptions will find ways to disseminate scientific material that match their need for a reasonable level of profitability, while making science readily available to all."
Dr P Vyasamoorthy 040-27846631 / 09490804278 <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_ source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail> Virus-free. www.avast.com <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_ source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail> <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.