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What's ironic in itself is that the mentioned paper ("A comprehensive overview of chemical-free consumer products", published by Wiley; i.e. an empty page) costs $38 to download as PDF: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/wol1/doi/10.1002/ciuz.2016007...

This makes it the most expensive piece of literature (cost per word) that I know of.

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Those journals got to recoup their expenses and hard work. /s

I suppose they just set a default price for all papers, and manually adjust others or something like that? I’m sure it’s not as silly as it seems right

I'm sure they could price by number of pages.

Since it's zero words long, it would be the most expensive piece of literature no matter what price they set on it!

Unfortunately, most scientific and scholarly literature is among the most expensive pieces of literature.

“Scientific.” “Scholarly.”

Given its, uh, content, this particular paper can really be classified as anything.

"most"

i.e. I wasn't talking about this specific paper, but most of all the other papers.

Indeed you were not. However, given that you generalized about the categories within which this paper presumably lies, I felt it amusing to point out that, using this paper as a start, one could generalize about any particular categories of papers.

Oh, that might just be the result of my not being a native speaker. In my language, the term "scientific" refers to articles in both the Humanities and Social Sciences as well as what Science refers to in English. Hence, I usually feel the need to specify all of those. In other words: it had nothing to do with the mentioned article being part of those domains :)

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