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		gwern on July 21, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 33GB of public domain JSTOR articles, and a manife... So, the solution to one publisher locking up and charging for access to public domain material is... copying the material to another publisher that likes locking up and charging for access?

ivankirigin on July 21, 2011 [–]

It is a solution to needing to download every file here just to access one quickly. Scribd has charged document creators IIRC, not readers.

Scribd makes money off ads, so the incentives are actually really well aligned

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