Assumption 1: the primary customers of increasingly expensive subscriptions from academic publishers are universities.<p>Assumption 2: the cost of the subscriptions is passed on to the primary customers of the universities -- students.<p>Assumption 3: assumptions 1 and 2 are correct.<p>Question: Is there any correlation to be made between the profitability of such academic publishers with the astounding rise in university tuition in the US over the past three decades?