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Re:Why is science behind a paywall? by czr80 on Friday May 10, 2013 @05:53PM (#5688884)
The "markets" are too niche - ad supported works for mass market sites, not for specialist journals read by a few tens of people.
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Re:Why is science behind a paywall? by Sven7 on Friday May 10, 2013 @06:14PM (#5688969)
Elsevier $2.7 billion revenue comes from tens of people?

Any company that runs an R&D dept would be happy to advertise.

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Re:Why is science behind a paywall? by czr80 on Friday May 10, 2013 @06:54PM (#5689070)
Actually, probably some journals could survive from advertising. But I'm a bit biased by thinking of mathematics journals, and trust me, you can't make that much advertising to mathematicians.
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