Thank you Franck.
What you are describing is normal business practice. In ordinary everyday
terms, businesses of all kinds often start out with below-cost pricing
(introductory special offers for example), in order to attract customers, then
raise prices. When average people sell their homes
Thanks Heather, I am glad you had a good experience publishing in
/Publications/ (and /Data/)!
Our decision to introduce or increase the APC of a journal depends on
many factors including the field of research, the reputation
(visibility,citation, indexing), and volume (=age) of the journal.
Thank you for the clarification, Ross.
To clarify further, from PeerJ's website: the current fee for lifetime
membership is $399 - $499 based on the number of articles to be covered (a 4 to
5-fold increase from the original price; and "All authors of a paper require a
membership or a single
Dear Heather,
I find it extremely misleading that you assert that PeerJ has had a
"tenfold price increase" in a discussion about APCs.
The $99 USD you quote as the original price is not and never was an APC.
You are comparing apples and oranges.
The $99 offer was a limited-time-only
Thank you Franck this is very helpful.
According to this website, the current inflation rate for Switzerland is .8,
i.e. less than one per cent:
https://tradingeconomics.com/switzerland/consumer-price-index-cpi
I see that a quarter of MDPI's journals have an average price increase of
27.3%.
Adding up the data summary for MDPI to the picture:
•164 journals with numeric data in 2017 (average APC 438CHF) and 2018
(average APC 533CHF)
•107 journals (65.2%) with no change in APC, including 40 journals free
(average APC 375CHF)
•40 journals (24.3%) with APC increase of 6% - 142%
