Heck, if government recognized this properly as being market failure, it could provide open-source self-publishing software free to academics as a subsidized public good.
The only problem is that this creates an opportunity to politicize science even further than it already is, because a vital part of that process is peer review and editing for content/readability, and some body of neutral experts would need to carry that out. Given our current anti-science regime, I suggest Washington kindly butt out.
Scientific community uprising it is, then.
