Amen to what Nancy said. I am sending mine back also.
Jill Finley Henderson
Taylor County Law Library
300 Oak St.
Abilene Tx. 79602
V: 325-674-1395
F: 325-674-1365
(voice) 915-674-1395
----- Original Message -----
From: <NKFrye@jud.ca.gov>
To: <law-lib@ucdavis.edu>; <scall@aallnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 1:43 PM
Subject: $475 for an index?!?
> Greetings all!
>
> I am not one to hop on the complainin' wagon so consider this posting
to be
> a mere coincidence that it occurs on the same day as Bob's rant.
Yesterday, I
> got the 2004 general index pamphlets for American Jurisprudence2d. An
> eye-popping $475 for them (they were $418 last year)! As an aside, for
that
> price, they should be hardbound so they don't flop all over my library
shelves.
> Back they go, West! There is no reason for these indexes to be 1) so
expensive
> and 2) produced as annual editions. The bound index volumes updated with
pocket
> parts worked just fine in the "good ole days." IMHO, the time has arrived
where
> West's marketers have reached the limit of publication churning and price
> increases. With severe cuts to library budgets, the backlash isn't going
to be
> pretty and everyone (libraries, library patrons, attorneys, West) will
suffer.
>
> Nanna Frye
> Court of Appeal
> San Diego, CA
>
>
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