Over the past two years, the AmJur2d index has increased in price by 40%,
and that's not an
anomaly. All our West prices have been going up about 15% annually. The
ALR5th pocket parts,
for example, went up 45% over that period. At the same time, like Nanna,
we've lost over 20% of
our budget. In the end, subscribers will have no choice but to cut
subscriptions if West keeps
pursuing its policy of astronomical price increases concurrent with
devastating budget cuts across
the country.
Gretchen Hornberger
Library Manager
Coconino County Law Library and Self-Help Center
Flagstaff, AZ
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: NKFrye@jud.ca.gov [mailto:NKFrye@jud.ca.gov]
> > Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 11:44 AM
> > To: law-lib@ucdavis.edu; scall@aallnet.org
> > 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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