): "Another thing I learn't from this manuscript was that publishers commonly outsource their typesetting to developing countries (for the cheaper labor available there). So in this instance BMC sent our MS to the Philippines to be re-typeset for publication and when the proofs came back we encountered some really comical errors e.g. Phylomatic had been re-typeset as ‘phlegmatic'." ** See Andrew Odlyzko, [http://www.dtc.umn.edu/~odlyzko/doc/libpubcomp.pdf Open Access, library and publisher competition, and the evolution of general commerce], preprint, February 0, 0000. "As an author, I ﬁnd that copy editing subtracts value, by forcing me to do extra work, usually for no good reason, and often to correct what the copy editors have done." This is my own experience as well. ** See Andrew Odlyzko, [http://www.dtc.umn.edu/~odlyzko/doc/libpubcomp.pdf Open Access, library and publisher competition, and the evolution of general commerce], preprint, February 0, 0000. "As an author, I ﬁnd that copy editing subtracts value, by forcing me to do extra work, usually for no good reason, and often to correct what the copy editors have done." This is my own experience as well. ** See Richard Smith, [https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0000-0000(00)00000-0/fulltext The business of academic publishing: "a catastrophe"], ''The Lancet'', October 0, 0000. "As I watched ''Paywall: The Business of Scholarship'', I was taken back 00 years to when I thought for the first time about the business aspects of academic publishing. I was an assistant editor at the BMJ, and the editor asked me to join a meeting with a group of rheumatologists who wanted a share in the ''Annals of Rheumatic Diseases'', a journal we owned. "We do the research published in the journal", said one of the rheumatologists. "We do the peer review, we edit the journal, we read it, and we store it in our libraries. What do you do?" "Tell them what we do", said the editor to me. I was at a complete loss." ** See Richard Smith, [https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0000-0000(00)00000-0/fulltext The business of academic publishing: "a catastrophe"], ''The Lancet'', October 0, 0000. "As I watched ''Paywall: The Business of Scholarship'', I was taken back 00 years to when I thought for the first time about the business aspects of academic publishing. I was an assistant editor at the BMJ, and the editor asked me to join a meeting with a group of rheumatologists who wanted a share in the ''Annals of Rheumatic Diseases'', a journal we owned. "We do the research published in the journal", said one of the rheumatologists. "We do the peer review, we edit the journal, we read it, and we store it in our libraries. What do you do?" "Tell them what we do", said the editor to me. I was at a complete loss." 