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\title{Why does Authorea charge for privacy?}


\author{Alberto Pepe}
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What's the deal about public vs. private articles? You can write public
articles for free, but you have to pay to write private articles? That's
like saying you can go to the beach for free, but you have to pay to
wear a swimsuit.\\
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True!~But after all, they're not giving away swimsuits for free at
Macy's :)\\

We, at Authorea, are a small company with a big vision. We're all
recovering researchers (mostly Ph.D.s in physics and computer science)
and are on a mission to make research better. We built Authorea because
we were annoyed by the slowness and inefficiencies of writing research
in collaboration and publishing it, in scholarly journals. We believe
that we built a product (you are looking at it) that is both useful (it
makes collaborative writing faster, more seamless, and a bit less
painful) and also visionary in its nature (we deconstructed LaTeX's old
fashioned ways and allowed dynamic, interactive figures and data to be
part of scholarly articles). \textbf{We are one of the few projects that
is truly rethinking scholarly writing}.\\

We also think that if a product is good enough, researchers and
universities should be willing to pay for it. The problem is: what do we
charge for? Since we are passionate about Open Science, Open Access and
Open Data, we figured that we would charge for privacy so that on the
one hand, we have a sustainable business (which is important and great!)
and on the other, we are encouraging scientists to write in the open
(our mission: equally great and important!). That is in a nutshell, why
we are charging for privacy, i.e., ``why you are paying for the
swimsuit''.\\

We have been, from day one, open to suggestions. So I ask you: do you
have ideas for alternative business models?\\\selectlanguage{english}
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