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by IanCal 2851 days ago
> It means the company cannot be sold, and all profits have to be reinvested

Right, so the incoming money is spent on the company itself - so should represent the long term running costs, surely.

> And PLOS, like for-profit publishers, has in the past had very large profit margins (and has been criticised for this, e.g. [1]).

I'm not sure I'd say those are extreme, $5M on $50M in revenue. Even if you removed that you would still have APCs of ~$1450-2700 which I don't think would change the original point.