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If anyone is wondering "how much do points 1 and 2 cost?!" the financial overview of notorious not-for-profit publisher PLOS is a good starting point: https://www.plos.org/financial-overview

Article Processing Fees for their journals range from $1500 to $3000 per article: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/s/publication-fees

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> Article Processing Fees for their journals range from $1500 to $3000 per article:

Does it really though? I can say it takes 10,000$ but does it really take that much money?

Of course not. Compare this with LIPIcs http://www.dagstuhl.de/en/publications/lipics -- they have article processing charges of 60 EUR.

ELCVIA is a high quality open access journal without any fees http://elcvia.uab.es/

If you create an electronic document of a few MByte size, 1500$ should cover hosting it for the next 1000 years! The largest cost (besides writing the paper) is reviewing it and that cost is already externalized by publishers.

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