I've said it before and a bunch of people objected to calling out Reed-Elsevier specifically. You know what? Too bad.

Reed-Elsevier. Reed-Elsevier. Reed-Elsevier.

Here's the summary of that article: "For the academic publishers, it is about extracting rents"

They don't want to sell Cokes at the beach; they want the official government monopoly on selling Cokes at the beach.