Oh those sad, sorry publishers. It’ll be so hard on them if they can’t make as many billion dollars per year off publicly funded research. How will they ever survive on less than $19 billion?

FTA:

Although open-access advocates and library groups support the move, opponents argue the new policy will limit researchers’ ability to maintain control of their published work—and cut into the $19 billion academic publishing industry’s profit margins.

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    opponents argue the new policy will limit researchers’ ability to maintain control of their published work

    From what I understand, researchers already aren’t able to maintain control of their published work because of the publishers.