Verisign will increase the .com price from $7.85 to $8.39

Re:Verisign will increase the .com price from $7.85 to $8.39 by tux3 on Thursday July 01, 2021 @11:02AM (#27699741)

I'm curious what the business expenses of a digital publisher like Elsevier look like. Peer review is not their purview, right? And I don't believe they pay the original authors a portion of each sale. Or that they need much of an advertising budget. What's the cost structure look like for a company like this one?

With all due cynicism, has their been public research on the sort of clever accounting tricks a company with Elsevier's business model must surely be using to keep their profit margin as low as 35% ..?

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Re:Verisign will increase the .com price from $7.85 to $8.39 by suprfsat on Thursday July 01, 2021 @11:17AM (#27699944)

Lobbying against open access, suing SciHub, threatening authors for self-publishing, yachts,

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Re:Verisign will increase the .com price from $7.85 to $8.39 by jpeloquin on Thursday July 01, 2021 @05:39PM (#27705208)

> I'm curious what the business expenses of a digital publisher like Elsevier look like.

Me too. Their investor relations report [0] is the best source I know of, but it's pretty vague. I only see breakdowns of revenue, no details regarding operating costs.

PLOS One is transparent regarding their costs though [1]:

- 46% publishing, editorial

- 18% publishing, production

- 15% publishing, technology

- 16% general & admin

- 5% publication fee rebates

[0] https://www.relx.com/~/media/Files/R/RELX-Group/documents/re...

[1] https://plos.org/financial-overview/

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