AAAS

[Brad DeLong]

>Chuck0 wrote, in the midst of an interesting post on the problems at AAAS:
>
>>On one hand, there was the belief by many Internet users
>>that information should be free. While I share that belief, I think that
>>many are naive about the costs involved in putting issues of a magazine
>>online.
>
>Or the costs of developing the information in the first place. I'm 
>constantly getting emails from people complaining that LBO is too 
>expensive, that I should give it away on the web, that I should put 
>up Acrobat versions of Wall Street and A New Economy? (when it's 
>done, which won't be long, I swear!), etc. Like I'm not trying to 
>pay the rent by writing, like it costs nothing for Internet access, 
>subscriptions, phone calls, travel, and like it takes no time to 
>maintain a website. The net has bred a righteous sense of 
>entitlement among users, because it seems to be costless - there's 
>no commodity you can drop on your foot, so it must be free, right?
>
>Kvetch, kvetch, kvetch,
>
>Doug

In the land of Pareto Optimalia, of course, price should equal the 
marginal cost of production and distribution