Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 16:18:31 -0500
From: Jeanette Skwor <SKWORJ@GBMS01.UWGB.EDU>
Subject: Re: Journal of Homosexuality (Danielle Argov)

***No answers on the disparity; we have not been invoiced for it lately, so
I can't even share our latest price.  But why not order it direct, then?
I'm sure we will, if there's that great a price difference.

Jeanette Skwor
Cofrin Library
University of Wisconsin-Green Bay

> Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 15:04:00 +0300
> From: Danielle Argov <ARGOV@HAR1.HUJI.AC.IL>
> Subject: Journal of Homosexuality
>
> Your reactions and comments are needed about the following disturbing fact
> concerning the Haworth journal: Journal of Homosexuality.
>
>
> the subscription info inside v.31 no.1/2 1996:
>                    quarterly - 1 year library price: $225-
>
> On the invoice for 9.95-8.96:
>                   8 times a year in 2 volumes: $655.- for both volumes. And
> this is the price given by several vendors.
>
> We are billed about 300% the stated price in the issue!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
> An additional detail: Haworth sends only airmail to overseas subscribers, no
> choice, which contributes also, although slightly, to the high price!
>
> When we decided to subscribe to this journal we took the price info from
> one sample issue (then $175.-). Useless to say that we have now to consider
> cancellation, since this price doesn't fit in our budget.
>
> Is there something I am missing? Please help me to grasp this strange case of
> disparity of info for a same item.
>
>
> Danielle Argov, Periodicals Department
> Bloomfield Library for Humanities and Social Sciences
> Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mount Scopus
> Jerusalem 91905  Israel
> tel: 972-2-882122  fax: 972-2-322435
> argov@har1.huji.ac.il
>