Instead, incumbent organizations maximize revenue in ways that do serve some social job (journals are good things), but far less than could be done, and often with a lot of negative behaviours. This is true both of for-profits like Elsevier, & of many not-for-profit publishers
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The arXiv budget last year was ~$2mil. The American Physical Society's journal budget was ~$40mil. In terms of the social benefit I think that's inverse from where it should be. So: what would a good market structure look like, one where arXiv naturally outcompeted the APS?
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Note: I'm really reluctant to want a model where the arXiv is simply locked in by central fiat. Better models than arXiv are certainly possible, and it'd be nice to encourage the emergence of those as well.
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Excuse me: the APS's journal _revenue_ (not budget - expenses were about 30 mill, so their profit was about 5 times the arXiv's entire budget).
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