Some ideas about smooth, trauma-free transition scenarios are discussed. Authors will benefit from this additional charge by having unlimited free reprints of their articles available everywhere on the Internet all the time. These are all friendly questions. I've branched this to some interested colleagues.
Page charges yield about four times more than institutional subscriptions.
No, but they should be no higher than now, and they might be lower. Thus I don't know what our savings would be if the Society discontinued printed issues. The money spent on reprints is more than half of what the Society gets from institutional subscriptions. Commercially published scientific journals have a less certain future. If library subscriptions cease, they must find a way to collect page charges in my opinion.