Open access journal are meant to break the commercialization and monopoly of knowledge imposed by publishers via the subscription fees. Now open access journal are doing the same and even more as they are requesting huge publication fees from authors about USD 300-600. This fees are more than the monthly salary of most of the researcher in the developing countries.
Strictly speaking, open access is about free readership, so the level of fee charged to publish isn't a barrier to open access readership. Some of the larger publishers - Elsevier for example - are becoming more interested in open access because they are finding it just as profitable as their traditional approach. But if publication fees are too high it may well deny access to publish, and this should be taken into account in the debate about the value of open access.
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