There will be fees, but only a few, only a few journals will publish the author's papers, giving the author a certain fee, and the fee will not be too much, from a few hundred to a thousand. So, why did Bian Xiao say so little? That's because as early as a decade ago, most journals were self-financing, and now the paper media has declined very badly. Even periodicals such as Readers and Stories are hard to survive, let alone serious academic journals. Therefore, academic journals began to charge page fees as operating expenses. So the reality is that most journals charge a publishing fee, which means that it costs money to publish a paper, not to mention whether it will get a manuscript fee.

If it is a periodical such as Readers and People's Literature, some post offices or newsstands can make some profits by selling magazines, but it is impossible for academic periodicals to appear in newsstands. Therefore, if you publish an article, people can't rely on readers to support themselves, but only rely on collecting page fees to maintain it.