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Re:Nature Neuroscience offers open access publishing for $11... by dash2 on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @06:01AM (#30084036)
It’s not a good analogy. Gigs and stand-up comedy have big audiences. Academic conferences don’t. Hiring a venue, paying for dinner, these things have cost. $600 isn’t unreasonable. By contrast $12,000 to publish a PDF on a website is criminal.
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Re:Nature Neuroscience offers open access publishing for $11... by netr0ute on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @09:47AM (#30086037)
> Academic conferences don’t.

Untrue, as shown by there being a conference in the first place.

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Re:Nature Neuroscience offers open access publishing for $11... by kristopolous on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @08:41PM (#30094989)
Not only but there's plenty of 20 seat comedy nights and tiny drive bars where the performers gets paid.

This isn't a necessary artifact of a structural reality. It's a political choice that we can exercise the freedom to change.

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Re:Nature Neuroscience offers open access publishing for $11... by dash2 on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @11:27PM (#30096215)
Some conferences are big. Many are 20 people.
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