il écoute les bibliothécaires s’allier contre les éditeurs de publications académiques. Thèses, mémoires, articles, les chercheurs passent leur vie à élaborer des expérimentations dont ils ne peuvent partager les résultats librement. Financée par deniers publics, la recherche reste cloîtrée dans le coffre-fort des éditeurs. Seules les grandes facul

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DA: Well, totally. I feel the same way about like, why can I not pay 10 cents to read a fucking New York Times article? I realize that people have been proposing companies that would build this layer for so long. Some of them already exist. So maybe it's stupid to hope that blockchain would do it, but at the same time it's not a question of where d... See more

It’s a lot of work to get users on your article. Statistically, the first thing that happens is that the user will close the tab without reading. Only a fraction will read your content for free — consider what an effort it takes to also be paid for it! The original sin of the web, indeed.

And you have to wrestle with the paywall and its very unfortunate trade-off. You want to share your work with the widest audience possible. But to any publication that’s too small for ads, free readers are simply not that valuable. For these reasons, I’ve always struggled with the paywall. Asking people to pay for writing is not a great way to make... See more