Scientific publishers routinely report profit margins approaching 40% on their operations at a time when the rest of the publishing industry is in an existential crisis.
在出版行业其他领域正面临生存危机的时期,科学出版商却经常报告其运营利润率接近40%。
More than half of all British scientific research is now published under open access terms: either freely available from the moment of publication, or paywalled for a year or more so that the publishers can make a profit before being placed on general release.
目前,英国超过一半的科学研究都是以开放获取的形式发表的:要么从发表之初就免费提供,要么在一年或更长时间内付费访问,以便出版商在全面开放前获得利润。
Publishers have responded to the demand that they make their product free to readers by charging their writers fees to cover the costs of preparing an article.
出版商为了满足让他们的产品对读者免费的需求,转而向作者收取费用以覆盖文章准备的成本。
These range from around £500 to $5,000, and apparently the work gets more expensive the more that publishers do it.
这些费用从大约 500 英镑到 5000 美元不等,显然,出版商做得越多,这项工作就越昂贵。
allow publishers some room to make money.
允许出版商有些赚钱的空间。
例句取自历年考研英语真题,翻译为机器生成,仅供学习参考。