3. There's a question of chicken/egg. If I want to switch to Open Access
(author-pays) from the current model (reader-pays), may I expect costs for
current subscriptions to go down as fast as or faster than the costs for
Open Access go up? If not, where will I find the delta? If I build a
bridge strategy to cover a period of double-cost, how confident can I be
that I'll get back to where I am now?
In an article about two years ago I called this the "double payment"
problem. I conceded that it's a real problem, but argued that it only