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[L. Amber Wilcox-O'Hearn]

Yes.  I think using micropayments (same idea, but much smaller amounts) is the ideal solution to this problem.

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 How to liberate all scientific knowledge

Richard Smith <richard...@gmail.com> Feb 17 04:08AM -0800  

Hi all,
 
I recently wrote a blog post with a basic outline for software that could
enable complete liberation of all journal articles in a distributed way.
 
A reader suggested I post it here, so here it is:
 
http://blahah.net/2014/02/11/knowledge-sets-us-free/
 
Keen to hear thoughts from this community.
 
Richard


 

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[Michael Mokrysz]

I agree costs should be far lower than £0.79/paper - assuming that was to stress the iTunes example. Given the negligible costs of storing an individual paper, Netflix-style pay-per-month seems more practical. 

The concept seems sound, although as usual suffering from the tricky issue of anonymising paper sources. I don't feel an iTunes-style item payment suits, however. Your average paper takes up a tiny amount of disk space and so a monthly payment or none might make more sense, although I'm unclear how this would work for a presumably grassroots and distributed system.

Cheers,

Michael Mokrysz

https://46b.it