Mariëlle Prevoo makes the point that because many submissions are rejected by journals (or withdrawn by authors), the article processing fees (APF) paid by authors are unfairly distributed. The recommendation is to charge separate fees at the submission, peer review, and publishing stage. I can see the merit of this proposal, assuming that you want to keep the existing system of submission and blind peer review intact. And such a model would put publishing in line with other prize-based systems, where you have to pay to be considered for an award. But maybe people should just publish (for free!) on their own institutional repositories or preprint exchanges, and let the community as a whole decide on the merit of these articles? Certainly that's what we do for most open content.
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