Exchange in the Financial Times

[Joseph Esposito <espositoj@gmail.com>]

Many readers of this list will already have seen this exchange on Open
Access in the Financial Times:

http://news.ft.com/cms/s/1ea23b3e-3f15-11d9-8e70-00000e2511c8.html

It is Tweedledum versus Tweedledee, and the winner is dum-dee-dum!

Note the implication in the headline of the article and the texts of the
pieces that the ONLY form of innovation in electronic publishing concerns
Open Access.  OA is a very small part of what is going on in electronic
publishing today and is largely irrelevant to the investments currently
being made that will define the future shape of scholarly communications.  
By analogy, one could theorize about the recent U.S. presidential election
and conclude that it all comes down to a preference for a partiular brand
of ketchup.

Joe Esposito