Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 14:59:37 -0500
From: "Christine Orr" <CORR@aip.org>
Subject: AIP to Sign RoweCom Prepaid Order Agreement

***Please excuse cross-posting***

RoweCom (divine) has been directed by the United States Bankruptcy Court
of the District of Massachusetts Eastern Division to deliver to their
customers and publications providers/publishers the RoweCom Prepaid
Order Agreement.  As you may know, publishers who sign this Agreement
agree to continue to fulfill subscriptions to customers who have prepaid
RoweCom, AND who have also signed the subscriber/institution version of
this Agreement.  The subscriber/institution version of this Agreement
assigns the institution's claim to the individual Publishers who have
also signed the Agreement.  Or, in legal terms according to the court
documents, "pursuant to which [RoweCom Prepaid Order Agreement] a
customer may agree to transfer its respective claims associated with
prepaid subscriptions in exchange for the agreement of publishers to
deliver the respective Prepaid Subscriptions associated with such claims."

AIP plans to sign this agreement and thereby will be fulfilling
subscriptions to those institutions who have already paid RoweCom
(divine) AND who have signed this Agreement as well.  As a provider of
fulfillment services to other publishers, we would also like to inform
you that all of the publishers who use AIP fulfillment services (see
list*) are included within our Agreement or plan to sign this same
Agreement on their own behalf.

AIP urges all institutions who have paid RoweCom (divine) to sign the
RoweCom Prepaid Order Agreement so that AIP can continue to provide you
with uninterrupted fulfillment of your subscriptions for 2003.

I hope this information is helpful.  If you have any questions or need
any further information, please do not hesitate to contact our Customer
Service Department via e-mail at nonrenew@aip.org, via phone at
800-344-6902 or 516-576-2270, or by fax at 516-349-9704.

Thank you.

Lori S. Carlin
Director, Circulation and Fulfillment
American Institute of Physics

*List of publishers

Acoustical Society of America (ASA)
American Astronomical Society (AAS)
American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM)
American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT)
American Institute of Physics (AIP)
American Physical Society (APS)
AVS - The Science and Technology Society
Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES)
International Centre for Diffraction Data (ICDD)
Institute of Physics (IOP), North American Distribution
ISA - The Instrumentation, Systems, and Automation Society
Laser Institute of America (LIA)
MAIK Nauka/Interperiodica Publishing
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG)
The Society of Rheology (SOR)