What if the internet provider pays for the subscriptions? Now a days, if we use internet from the school we can access some articles because the schools pay for them. Internet providers could create groups according to the users interests and provide subscriptions to relevant publications. This should be a lot cheaper than individual subscription and... in certain way... the users of chats, spam and trivial stuff could end up helping to finance access to more relevant stuff for those who are interested.
Because asking the persons who create the articles (i.e. hole process) to PAY to publish instead of getting paid for their work IS WRONG!!!
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What if the internet provider pays for the subscriptions? Now a days, if we use internet from the school we can access some articles because the schools pay for them. Internet providers could create groups according to the users interests and provide subscriptions to relevant publications. This should be a lot cheaper than individual subscription and... in certain way... the users of chats, spam and trivial stuff could end up helping to finance access to more relevant stuff for those who are interested. Because asking the persons who create the articles (i.e. hole process) to PAY to publish instead of getting paid for their work IS WRONG!!!