Re: Maximising research access vs. minimizing copy-editing errors

[ml1047@columbia.edu]

I would like to just briefly add to the point Anthony makes here 
by noting that during 10 years that I worked as a publisher's 
editor at two different commercial STM publishing houses, a 
number of my journal's academic editors (editors-in-chief) made 
fairly large sums of money in the form of royalties and/or fees 
tied to the number of papers published per year. Three of these 
editors made more than 100K/year for their work as journal 
editors.

Michael Luby

Quoting Anthony Watkinson <anthony.watkinson@btopenworld.com>:

>  Quite a number of editors of journals retire early because the income from 
> the journal (the honorarium) enables them to live in comfort while drawing 
> their pension.