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by malloreon 1990 days ago
What’s to stop me, as a journal publisher, from saying, “hmmm, yes, Indian government? So that will be...1.35 billion subscriptions, yes?”
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the fact that then you sell them 0 subscriptions? It's not like "the government has said it'll do this, so now it has to do it at all costs", and governments of larger countries do have options to make a publishers life difficult if they are unreasonable, so there is some interest on both sides to negotiate.