The problem is they base that number on the already massively inflated profits they made before going open access. The only reason they have to go open access ia if they are not making a deficit in profit.
Funny enough, they are still double dipping in most cases because you still have to pay the subscription to access all the non-open access papers.
mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
Ah Its expensive to make it availiable to everyone. Oh yeah we need money for peer reviews too haha
henfredemars@infosec.pub 4 months ago
It’s so strange because publishing on the Internet is close to free, and I swear one of my peer reviewers lacked basic reading comprehension.
123nope567@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Not strange at all if it’s the german Springer company this refers to, they’re basically the Murdoch Empire, just publishing their stuff in German l, so greed is in its DNA