By and large, the academic publishing industry operates in such a way that it ignores the internet ever happened. The internet says, &quot;Hey, you don&#x27;t have &#x27;Kant&#x27;s Third Critique of Judgement in your inner-city school library. Here, let me tell you what it says&quot; the academic publishing industry says &quot;whoa- you&#x27;re not at an institution that pays us money - you don&#x27;t deserve to know what this says.&quot;<p>They try to make it seem like they do so much to push knowledge forward - but they take the paper you wrote in MSWord, take credit for the peer-review, then make it into a PDF and ask for your money.<p>The internet is going to destroy them and they are running scared. How long can you sustain a business that relies on paywalling PDF files?