Reprint Fees: Higher than You Thought - Daily Nous

"William Lewis, professor of philosophy at Skidmore College, has been working on putting together an edited volume of works by the late W.A. Suchting, an Australian analytic philosopher of science from the late 20th Century.

His experience has led him to be concerned that books of this type will become rarer and rarer, owing to the high reprint fees publishers are charging....

Professor Lewis shared the quoted reprinting costs for the articles planned for inclusion in the volume. The most expensive, at $8979.50, is an article from Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, published by Elsevier. Next is an article from Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, published by Wiley, for $8913.50. That’s followed by $4579.50 for an article from Kant-Studien and $1251.50 for one from Analyse & Kritik, both published by DeGruyter. Many of the others were around $600...."