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Yes, of course, you're right. In the academic world so-called "publish or perish" policies have somewhat sustained the system. Publication there has long been regarded as part of the job and its aura. The expense of paper publishing helped keep out the pretenders to authority (though not always). I'm wondering what kind of conditions will have to be met in order to reinvent the journal referee system, though I realize that there have been efforts recently to implement it for electronic publication.
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