Dear Heather,
As you noted the APC of several MDPI journals have increased in January
2019, and the APC of several others will increase in July 2019. As
Jeroen also noted many did not and will not increase.
We recently decided to increase the APCs as a matter of long term
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From: goal-boun...@eprints.org on behalf of Heather
Morrison
Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2019 10:40:03 PM
In brief: MDPI has increased prices, in many cases quite substantially (some
prices have more than tripled). Even more price increases are anticipated in
July 2019, which will have the effect of doubling the average APC and tripling
the most common APC. Unlike other publishers’ practices, there
