These academic conferences are insanely expensive (typically ~$1000 tickets) and quite poorly run, especially compared to industry conferences. Industry confere

These academic conferences are insanely expensive (typically ~$1000 tickets) and quite poorly run, especially compared to industry conferences. Industry conferences are not only cheaper and better run, but they even have niceties like coffee (!!) and the occasional snack. The last academic conference I was invited to speak at charged me $1000 as an invited speaker – which I paid, but never will again. There was no coffee or organization at the breaks. In short, I'm quite certain academic publishers are also making a tidy profit off of their conferences.