Apparently not according to some market fundamentalists. The old industry-paradigmists pretent to believe that nothing valuable can be created outside the market, and they have critisized the new book Free from Chris Anderson on this background. I really liked how Seth Godin tackled this old-paradigm style arguments in his blogpost "Malcolm is wrong"
"The first argument that makes no sense is, "should we want free to be the future?"
Who cares if we want it? It is.
The second argument that makes no sense is, "how will this new business model support the world as we know it today?"
Who cares if it does? It is. It's happening. The world will change around it, because the world has no choice. I'm sorry if that's inconvenient, but it's true."
Both David Wiley and Peter Murray-Rust have follow up comments on Seths discussion with implications for the university in the future that is worthy reading:
"Arguing About Free and the Future"
http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/950
"Universities should act while they have the chance"
http://wwmm.ch.cam.ac.uk/blogs/murrayrust/?p=2171
Complement these comments with Michael Nielsen's local optimum theory and I think it is very clear what's going on:
"Is scientific publishing about to be disrupted?"
http://michaelnielsen.org/blog/is-scientific-publishing-about-to-be-disrupted/
A completely normal disruption process with all the elements that Schumpeter popularized in his book Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy
I am a strong believer in markets and money in so many ways, but it has many limits.
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