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Re:Beginning January 2026, all ACM publications will be made... by gucci-on-fleek on Thursday December 18, 2025 @08:36PM (#46321311)
I help out with the production of a periodical that is journal-ish [0], and the biggest expense is printing and mailing. But it's ran by a non-profit, our editors are all volunteers, we don't do peer review, and our authors typeset the articles themselves, so this is definitely an atypical example.

[0]: https://tug.org/TUGboat/

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Re:Beginning January 2026, all ACM publications will be made... by adgjlsfhk1 on Thursday December 18, 2025 @09:10PM (#46321537)
Surely you charge printing and mailing to the people you are mailing to though.
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Re:Beginning January 2026, all ACM publications will be made... by gucci-on-fleek on Friday December 19, 2025 @01:06AM (#46322711)
Yes, we charge $35 a year (for 3 issues) for printing and mailing, which is just a little bit more than what it costs us.
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