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On the principle a subscription is always better than individual sales from the journal's point of view because it's a fixed income on which they can count. It's also well known to increase sales that …

Personally I find it very convenient to have publishers do the publishing work for me so that I can concentrate on my research. I have to transfer my copyright? So what? … I know it's field-dependent but in mine the anti-publishers argument is a fringe thing. …

You can ask for anything you want, but you will not get a refund. The terms and condition of the site where you purchased it most likely clearly stated that it wasn't an option. One example from Taylo …

Some publishers are commercial operations, some are non-profit (such as the American Institute of Physics). …

Because keeping money out of the publisher-reviewer relationship is a very good feature of the current dominant publishing model. Some of the unwanted things that paying reviewers would result in: …

They sent you a proof, so review it and respond with the things you would like to change. Don't send a "camera ready" version with how you wished it would look like. The paper was most likely re-typed …

I suspect established publishers like Wolters Kluwer have significantly more legal firepower than a one-person operation run from an internet cafe in Hyderabad. …

Journals get listed there for various reasons, and there is off course a subjectivity factor. One of Beall's pet peeve is aggressive marketing strategy, which is indeed annoying and suspicious, but ha …

Large publishers usually use commercial typesetting software (i.e. not LateX) that are more appropriate for large scale publishing and match all the other steps in the production process. …

Disseminating printed documents in many places on the planet is a very robust "backup" strategy for scientific literature. Printed documents (and other forms of ink-on-paper documents), or fragments o …

Many journals are publishers' own products, "going solo" makes no sense. It's like asking why Gmail does not segregate from Google. … In some cases, professional societies hire publishers to take care of their official publishing organ, I imagine your question relates to these cases. …

Elsevier and Springer are publishers, they have a portfolio of journals and are sometimes hired by professional or academic societies to provide publishing services. … As a result, even though both the company that you listed are reputable publishers, there are large variations of quality within their respective portfolios. …

I might actually be doing more harm than good (to myself, to the authors, and/or to scientific publishing in general) by agreeing to review a manuscript sent to me by a sufficiently scammy jour …

what do authors gain from agreeing to transfer exclusive rights to publishers without preventing that rights transfer? … On a side note, I wouldn't worry too much about "traditional" publishers should subscription fall out of fashion, they already cater to authors who absolutely wish to spend research funding on article …