An economic rationale for page and submission charges by academic journals

Yale M. Braunstein

Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1977, vol. 28, issue 6, 355-358

Abstract: Journal publishing is generally characterized by economies of scale. This results in the impossibility of marginal cost pricing to enable to publisher to recover costs or make a profit. If one views the publishing process as the production of multiple outputs and assigns prices to each, it is possible to increase social welfare.

Date: 1977
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