Preface; Introduction: A Pandemic Stress Test; 1. A Digital Dark Age for Newspapers; 2. The Staying Power of the Press; 3. Press Freedom and Proliferation; 4. The National Press: From Propaganda to Profit; 5. The Provincial Press: The Problem of Free; 6. What if Newspapers Aren't Dying?

The move from traditional to open-access journals—which charge no subscription fees, only submission fees—is gaining support in academia. We analyze a two-sided-market model in which journals cannot commit to subscription fees when authors (who prefer low subscription fees because this...