Publishers' Unnecessary Services - Open Access Archivangelism

" ... 1. PLOS (like other publishers) seems to be charging a hefty price for 'services that are unnecessary.' ;>) 2. I agree completely that we should get rid of publishers' unnecessary services and their costs. But how to do that, while publishers control what is bundled into subscriptions in exchange for publication and access (or into pre-Green Fools-Gold in exchange for 'publication' and OA)? My answer is the one Mike calls 'parasitic': Institutions and funders worldwide mandate Green OA (with the “copy-request” Button to circumvent publisher OA embargoes). The cancellations that that will make possible will force publishers to drop the unnecessary services and their costs and downsize to post-Green Fair-Gold for peer review alone.. 3. But I disagree with Mike about peer-review: it will remain the sole essential service. And the (oft-voiced) notion that peer-review can be replaced by crowd-sourcing, after 'publication' is pure speculation, supported by no evidence that it can ensure quality at least as well as classical peer review, nor that is it scalable and sustainable ..."