Re: PLoS ONE: now the world's largest journal?

[Mark Kurtz <mkurtz@arl.org>]

And, honestly, what proportion of nonprofit publishers charge 
$5000 for a subscription? Kind of shows what nonprofit publishers 
are up against.

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On Jan 27, 2011, at 6:58 PM, Matthew Person wrote:

> I have no opinion on this but out of curiosity I 
> unscientifically counted 315 articles in the latest issue of 
> PLoS One.
>
> At $1350 article processing charge per article, maybe $425,250 
> was taken in on this issue.
>
> Again, an unscientific method...if all 12 issues per year have 
> 315 articles, that would be over five million dollars in 
> article processing charges,
>
> I don't know what to think of this, but I think the general 
> figures are pretty interesting.
>
> To follow up on the above, I did the arithmetic hypothetically: 
> if a commercial journal has 1000 subscribers and charges $5000 
> per year per subscription, that also comes to about $5,000,000. 
> Kind of shows what an open access publisher can be up against.
>
> Matthew Person
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