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How much do you think it should be? I personally believe if elsevier et al only profited 25% from publishing, prices would be much lower than they are now.
by kakaorka 8y ago
How much do you think it should be? I personally believe if elsevier et al only profited 25% from publishing, prices would be much lower than they are now.
- telltruth 8y agoHow much it should cost to put an entry in to database? It shouldn't be 30% of your revenue! The whole business model here is to gain customer eyeballs and once you get momentum, you do outright theft in to fruits of other people's labor. Imagine amount of work done by a single AirBnB host to maintain his/her property, taking bunch of risks and trying to make whole transaction successful. In what world AirBnB is eligible to get 30% of that labor for merely allowing to insert a database entry in to their system? This whole trend was popularized by Steve Jobs where Apple is somehow eligible to get 30% cut for mere privileged of publishing app on their platform. Much of the reviews they do is automated and tiny amount of labor involved is often housed in India (just like Elsewiser). For adding an entry in to database, there should be fixed price and businesses shouldn't be stealing 30% from other people's work.
- user5994461 8y agoCompetitors are closer to 10%.