While there is no charge for our member community to use NetGalley, publishers do pay a set - up fee and a monthly
subscription rate depending on the number of books listed on the site.
The
rates vary
depending on the duration of membership usually $ 95.95 for the 6 months
subscription, $ 59.95 for three months membership and lastly, $ 29.95 for a month membership.
This is the company, elsevier, with spectacular profit
rates, whch gets its material (papers, books) which have mostly been produced at public expense (university salaries, public research grants), do very little actual editorial work (one usually has to supply papers charts etc «print ready»), get academic reviewers to review the books and papers free of charge (well, paid for by universities or they do it in free time),
depend on journal editors whose time is paid for by (generally publicly funded) universities, then sells the journals to the same universities, sometimes for
subscription prices in the thousands of dollars.