[LINK] Open publishing strike - editorial board resigns

[Roger Clarke]

At 12:59 +1100 1/4/13, Kim Holburn wrote:
>On 2013/Apr/01, at 9:57 AM, Roger Clarke wrote:
>
>>  At 9:37 +1100 1/4/13, Tom Worthington wrote:
>>>  Yes, the issue of academic publication costs issue has been brewing for
>>>  years.
>>>  Publishing costs money, but how much is in dispute.   ...
>>
>>  "An unincorporated mutual can produce a limited-quantity hard-copy
>>  journal for $20,000 p.a., and an eJournal for $8,000 p.a.
>
>$20,000 p/a for traditional publishing but using POD printing it 
>would be little more than the eJournal.

Did you read the article?  (:-)}

These Appendices suggests that printing costs are about 35-60% of the 
costs of a printed-journal:
http://www.rogerclarke.com/EC/JP-CP-UMSubs.html
http://www.rogerclarke.com/EC/JP-CP-ASJHC.html

I didn't specifically deal with POD in that paper, but at one 
extremity the use of POD means that the journal *is* an eJournal, 
i.e. the subscriber receives a soft-copy electronically, and they can 
choose to print it of they wish.

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