Journals Pricing

Pricing Electronic Journals

A fundamental problem facing publishers is how to recover costs. This is a problem for all publishers, but is of special significance to publishers of digital documents. This is because a basic characteristic of digital documents is that it is very costly to produce the first copy, but quite inexpensive to produce subsequent copies. Hence ``recovering the first copy costs'' takes on a special s...

Comments: Pricing and Cost of Electronics Journals

To be considered for publication in the Comments section, letters should be relatively short—generally fewer than 1000 words—and should be sent to the journal ofŽces at the address appearing inside the front cover. The editors will choose which letters will be published. All published letters will be subject to editing for style and length. In what follows, Joop Dirkmaat of Elsevier Science and...

Optimal Pricing of Academic Journals in a Two-Sided Model: The Effect of Copyright

Academic journals act as platforms upon which authors communicate their ideas to readers. As such, a journal needs to attract both authors and readers in order to be able to provide their service, which is beneficial to both readers and authors. However the interrelationship between authors and readers on the journal platform is even more complex than a simple meeting place where ideas are exch...

The Economics of Economics Journals : A Statistical Analysis of Pricing Practices by Publishers

This study uses multiple regression analysis to investigate price determinants of the top-ranked economics journals. Holding other factors constant, the study found that the prices charged to libraries in the United States are significantly higher for journals from for-profit publishers and for those originating in Europe. The estimated price differential for European journals is too large to b...

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