These are the questions I remember being asked, and about how I
remember answering them.

Q.

What you've described sounds great from a student perspective.  But if
you continue your academic career, won't you want to be published in
the most well-known journals?

A.

That's a great question. (laughter)

Sure, I'll want to advance my CV and publish in where everyone
important to me will read my work.  In natural language processing in
computer science, that probably means conference proceedings, most of
which are available on the web for free anyway.

Later on in my career, when I'm established, I'll have the ability to
choose where I publish, and if open access to my work is important to
me, I'll be able to make sure that happens.  But as I pointed out with
NLP work, access and prestige aren't necessarily at odds.

Q.

Do you purchase content online right now?  If not, what could we do to
make that happen?

A.

Right now, I don't buy any academic content online beyond the huge
archives my library makes available for me.  I do buy music online,
but only from stores that don't add digital rights management - that's
the name for the technologies that restrict what you can do with the
content.

I've heard from people with electronic textbooks where you can't
copy-paste, where you can't insert images from them into PowerPoint
slides.  Students are used to technology that lets them do what they
want, so why would we pay money for a textbook that limits how I can
use my computer?  I view such products as broken.

I would be willing to pay 10, maybe 20, maybe 30, maybe 40, maybe 50,
dollars for an e-textbook if it worked.  Above 50 you start to hit the
price of paper textbooks.  The key is to provide value.