<div dir="ltr"><b><font color="#ff0000">Scholarly publishing has for a long period drifted away from the subscription model, and we’re paying the price.</font></b> The site license model has interfered with direct subscriptions for many publishers, but since the financial bargain has been acceptable, the strategic issues have been grudgingly tabled. The last decade of fixation on site licenses and OA has led to a general neglect of subscription marketing and e-commerce infrastructure. At the strategic level, direct subscriptions and group subscription offshoots are often overlooked or simply not considered viable anymore.<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">
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