Revisiting: The Arms Race in Journals Publishing Heats Up - The Scholarly Kitchen

"It will be interesting to see what the acquiring publishers come up with now that simply paying more may have reach its limit. It seems probable that eventually all the publishers will seek to bind professional societies more closely to them. And so the board of the Journal of Highly Specialized Science may find that their group has been invited to join Club Elsevier–or Club Wiley or Sage or whatever. As a club member the society will have a new set of benefits, which will serve to tie the members of the society more closely to the society even as the society itself and its publications are more deeply integrated into the hosting parent publisher."