<div dir="ltr">Plenty of specialized scientific journals charge $5,000 and more for yearly subscriptions. So why are academic journals so expensive?<br><br>The economics of academic publishing are fundamentally different from those of general book publishing, or journalism, or the chocolate industry. <div><br><a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2016/04/the_lawsuit_against_sci_hub_begs_the_question_why_are_academic_journals.html">http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2016/04/the_lawsuit_against_sci_hub_begs_the_question_why_are_academic_journals.html</a></div></div>