From: "SANFORD G THATCHER" <[log in to unmask]> Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2019 12:51:14 -0400 I apologize if someone has already raised this point, but is there any evidence to show that publishers charging authors just to publish price their journals lower than similar journals in their fields? One might consider this practice justifiable if the aim was to share the burden of supporting the publishing enterprise between author and user (or library). It should be noted that university presses have long maintained a practice oi asking authors (preferably with resources provided by their universities) to subsidize publication of monographs whose expected sales alone could not cover the full costs of publication. But there is no standard charge for every publication; the charge differs depending on the cost /sales parameters of the monograph in question. Sandy Thatcher