Academic journals are about status, not disseminating information

And that is why companies like Elsevier are bucking the trend of media companies fall victim to the Web. Justin Fox puts it like this, in a nice article on BloombergView reporting on an ASSA discussion on economics journals:

Maybe academic publishers will be the Internet’s last victim.

Not exactly news to academic authors, but well explained for the general public in this article.

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