Like, but: "Their conservation is not entirely theoretical:" -- Nature wants $5K processing fee for its hybrid OA initiatives, and can't afford a copy editor for its editorials? ("Conversation" is clearly the word intended, but only a human being will catch that error.) - Walt Crawford

I don't think I'll ever understand the things people choose to nitpick over, but alas, to each his own. - Noah Gray

Noah: If that had been a blog post, I wouldn't nitpick. If it was an editorial in an OA journal with no author-side fees, I probably wouldn't nitpick. But when NPG asks for what I regard as insanely high author-side fees for the OA option, one presumes that "expensive, high quality editing" should be part of that $5,000--and I get nitpicky. - Walt Crawford

Just as, when I'm quoting from a blog in one of my own articles, I simply correct minor spelling and grammatical errors...but if the blogger is a self-identified hotshot writer, then I'd add a [sic]. - Walt Crawford

Nature does not charge a processing fee, by the way, and this is the journal in which the cited article appears. Has anyone done a study of number of typos in journals that charge submission fees cf those that do not? - Maxine

Maxine: Nature doesn't charge a processing fee, but it also isn't a Gold OA journal, and doesn't exactly give away online access...and I would assume the $5K processing fee is based on Nature's asserted costs of operation. If you're saying Nature is a shoestring operation that can't afford copy-editors, great...tell CDL about NPG's cheap rates. - Walt Crawford