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Nowadays, the Romanian editorial state in terms of quality and quantity is ascending continuously. However, it is still far away from the one found in United Kingdom. The British editorial system is one of the best editorial systems ever known. It was built on the backbone of several very old and well known British publishers such as Nature Publishing Group, Royal Society Publishing, Oxford University Press etc, and moreover, many newer publishers/publications were drawn after the face of these British top publishers/publications. It is normal to try and compare your national system with the best systems in terms of editorial issues. If we compare the two systems, they are different from many points of view. The editorial system of UK is among the oldest in the world, in fact they are the pioneers, while the one from Romania is rather young. If the British system is much of quality, the Romanian system is much of quantity (especially on the academic side). In UK, selling publications can be a good affair; in Romania, a publisher hardly ever recovers its investments. This is mainly due to the language of publication of the most part of the books and materials of general interest in the two countries (English in UK - a language of international circulation, Romanian language in Romania - provide a narrower area of readers) and also due to the economic power of the citizen (Romanians have limited financial resources for the acquisition of books, magazines and journals); for this reason the British publishers are mostly traditional while Romanian publishers are mostly open-access in the true sense or open access like. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]