Monica Bradford, executive editor at Science, said: "We have a large circulation and printing additional papers has a real economic cost…
One wonders if Science is one of those journals that invites reviewers to work for free because being a reviewer is so prestigious. Unpaid review constitutes a significant subsidy to the academic publishing industry: http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/402189.article It seems to me that the marginal cost of publication is actually fairly low, especially given the rather exorbitant prices the top journals charge just to read a paper ($30 for non-library purchases, which is more than the cost of the print edition).
One wonders if Science is one of those journals that invites reviewers to work for free because being a reviewer is so prestigious. Unpaid review constitutes a significant subsidy to the academic publishing industry: http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/402189.article It seems to me that the marginal cost of publication is actually fairly low, especially given the rather exorbitant prices the top journals charge just to read a paper ($30 for non-library purchases, which is more than the cost of the print edition).