I just wish publishers would quit giving lip service to our budget restrictions.  They keep manipulating "pricing models" to be "consistent" (with what I honestly don't know), when they really are just out for more money.

When one points out the sheer impossibility of budgeting for double-digit increases, they try to sound sympathetic and say things like:  "Oh, yes. We hear that a lot."   But they don't care.

Yes, I realize that they have to make a profit, but when an e-journal collection price jumps by 25% in one year because of a change in "pricing model,"  that is just sickening.

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