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I'm not one for posting publisher press releases on this blog (and embargoed ones at that!) but sometimes you just have to try something a little different. And this is such an occasion.
PeerJ is an Open Access publisher of scholarly articles.
The Launch of PeerJ - PeerJ Blog.
Welcome to the most recent installment in my very occasional series of interviews with people in the publishing/science blogging/computing communities. The latest is with Peter Binfield and Jason Hoyt of PeerJ.

I have a nagging suspicion that a "lifetime membership model" isn't any more sustainable in scientific publishing than it is in gym memberships.

Jim, that's something we're going to have to wait and see. The key will be if there are enough new scientists subscribing each year to keep the enterprise afloat. The calculations are probably closer to those of a large pension plan.