I help out with the production of a periodical that is journal-ish [0], and the biggest expense is printing and mailing. But it's ran by a non-profit, our editors are all volunteers, we don't do peer review, and our authors typeset the articles themselves, so this is definitely an atypical example.

[0]: https://tug.org/TUGboat/

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adgjlsfhk1 14 hours ago | parent [-]

Surely you charge printing and mailing to the people you are mailing to though.

	▲	gucci-on-fleek 10 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yes, we charge $35 a year (for 3 issues) for printing and mailing, which is just a little bit more than what it costs us.