Yeah, and apparently it's even a nightmare to legitimately work with these large companies to renew licensing and whatnot on an institutional level. Elsevier is the worst, I've heard. So what are we losing if we bypass the current structures of publishing? The only real issue that I can find is losing some standardized peer-review processes, which could then be reinstated through a peer-to-peer network. This needs more discussion in academia. We also need to open the door for animated media (even models, author willing) to be bundled with a publishing. Arxiv is great, but it places the burden of scrutiny too firmly on the reader, and thus needs tweaking before it's ready for public consumption, which is requisite for what I would call "publishing". Lotta bunk on Arxiv.