[Open-access] [open-science] First copy costs of scientific articles - a short overview

[Ulrich Herb]

>
> It's obviously very difficult to get this figure - but I would
>   conceptually separate the production of the final digital object from
> its delivery (you had already removed "hosting").

I agree, the first copy costs should only include the expenses for the 
creation of the final digital version, expenses for distribution 
(print/digital) should be excluded.

> If we compare the price to buy against our estimates of the raw
> production cost we get some idea of the other costs.

exactly!

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