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Re:ACM costs vs. arxiv.org costs by b215826 on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @06:16AM (#22116503)
That's an unfair comparison. Discrete Analysis is an arXiv-overlay journal, IEEE hosts its own articles. Plus, Discrete Analysis doesn't typeset or proofread the articles it publishes. Again, I'm not justifying the exorbitant prices that most journals charge to publish using an open access option, all I'm saying is that it's unfair to compare arXiv with an actual academic journal. A preprint repository is in no way equivalent to an academic journal.
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Re:ACM costs vs. arxiv.org costs by Certhas on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @08:44AM (#22117452)
Arxiv hosting costs were posted elsewhere and are minimal. Less than the 30$ per published article that DA requires on top. From memory: <10$ per year per published article.

So we have roughly 1660$ unaccounted for for IEEE. PRX costs 4000$.

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