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Okay but who gets the 40 euros then? All goes for server maintenance costs?
It goes to the publisher's profits.
Publishing houses who control the entire industry and whom you have to go through because they have the professional networks and publishing somewhere without "prestige" is literally worse than not publishing at all.
It's pretty fucked.