Stevan Harnad notes that this is all fine for book and magazine authors, but erects another commercial barrier to the dissemination of refereed journal articles. The American Physical Society, a leader in online archiving of scientific papers, allows authors to self-archive their final, refereed, accepted papers, as long as they cite the official APS version. Jim Levin of UIllinois is developing software for open peer review of papers. Readers' suggestions are displayed in pop-up windows, available to other reviewers. Tools built on FileMaker Pro will help authors work with the comments.
Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.
You may have to work for it, however. 2000 by Kenneth I. Laws.