From: Bill Cohen <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 20:01:28 -0400

In fairness (or grant you, unfairness) it is not difficult to invoice
the author of a newly submitted journal article author for page
charges, color figure charges, reprint charges.  You have their
address easily in hand.

It (was, in my day) another matter to track down authors 2, 5, or 7 or
more years down the pike to supply a check.   They have very likely
changed addresses multiple times.   Even nowadays if you try googling
an academic, their can be awfully difficult to track down.


On 4/11/13 7:03 PM, LIBLICENSE wrote:

> From: David Prosser <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 21:02:58 +0100
>
> Although interestingly publishers over the last 100 years have managed
> to track 'small' payments from authors (page charges, colour figure
> charges, reprint charges, etc).
>
> David
>
>
> On 10 Apr 2013, at 19:54, LIBLICENSE wrote:
>
> From: "Hamaker, Charles" <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2013 21:01:43 +0000
>
> I was told tracking individual payments for journal articles was too
> insignificant and too much trouble when I asked about this at Pergamon
> Press and then Elsevier.
>
> Chuck Hamaker
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sandy Thatcher <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2013 00:21:05 -0500
>
> It is not universally true that revenues from reprint and other
> subsidiary rights sales are not shared with authors of journal
> articles.  In this respect, at Penn State University Press, we treated
> our journal authors in the same way as we treated our book authors,
> sharing income from most subsidiary rights 50/50. We are not the only
> publisher that pursued this practice either. It is not clear to me why
> most publishers decided not to treat journal and book authors the same
> way. Perhaps some other publisher can explain the rationale for the
> difference in treatment.
>
> Sandy Thatcher