@Soy_Magnus @jeffcliff The Peer Review Industry has been excessively profitable for ages now, mostly because paper are usually pay with Government Grants to Universities and Research Institutions, i.e. Taxpayer Money, ergo there is never a shortage of money to pay for "THE SCIENCE". Also, the Scientific Publications Industry is very concentrated and cartelized so the 3 or 4 companies that run it ( Springer-Verlag, Academic Press, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford Academic Press, Routledge and Elsevier ) tend to converge on the prices per page of the published papers ( which Governments happily paid through Grants ).