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

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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