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Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 12:37:34 -0500
From: Peter Picerno <ppicerno@choctaw.astate.edu>
Subject: Re: Haworth Press Journals (2 messages)

Some libraries will pay more ... and some libraries will discontinue their
subscriptions based not only on price but on price-usefulness or price-use
considerations.

Peter Picerno
ASU

>>From dgoodman@Princeton.EDU Fri Oct 13 13:01:04 2000
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 12:20:11 -0400
From: David Goodman <dgoodman@Princeton.EDU>
Subject: Re: Fwd: RE: Haworth Press journals (Carol Morse) (fwd)

So this purported justification is nonsense. The truth is one or both of
the following:

1. They charge libraries more because libraries will pay more, and
individuals won't.

2. The price to individuals represents very close to the incremental cost
of printing and distributing the copies, and it's from the additional
amount that libraries pay that they get their profit.

Since a commercial publisher must run a business and earn a living, it is
not unreasonable for it to make a fair profit. Our proper role is to
determine whether the journal is worth what it costs us.