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