Just reading in the Wall Street Journal and ran across a letter to the editor from H. Frederick Dylla (Executive Director & CEO, American Institute of Physics) (March 3, 2009). The heading for the letter is "Free Model Hurts Science Journals." Says Dylla "One of the greatest fallacies of the information age is the notion that the World Wide Web can free publishing from all associated costs. It cannot. Whether or not information 'wants' to be free, it rarely is. For publishers of all types to stay in existence, their business models must reflect this reality." I couldn't agree more. It costs money to digitize content for the Web and maintain and refresh it. Dylla is responding to J. Gordon Crovitz's earlier column ("Information Wants to Be Expensive," Feb 23.
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