On a positive note regarding West Publishing, I also received the above
book in three different prints. I called West Group and spoke with Jeff
Isack who was very happy to send me a return label. No questions, no
hassles.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: WILLIAM H. GRADY [SMTP:WHGRADY@phjw.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 1998 10:41 AM
> To: JilloHen@aol.com
> Cc: law-lib@ucdavis.edu
> Subject: ALERT: 1998 IRS Reform pamphlet -Reply
>
> I was shocked as usual to find the shipping notice for this when I was
> getting the West bill together and to find the pamphlet on the shelf.
> Needless to say I would have kept it and sent West a note with a "39
> USC3009" thank you attached and asked for it to be removed from our
> account if I had caught it before it was stamped.
>
> I find it really cheeky of any publisher, including West, to just
> blythely
> decide to issue and charge us for a pamphlet like this. So what if it
> is a
> tax bill? If West did this for every important (read thick) bill
> Congress
> issued, they would be hitting us with these specials all the time.
> Nobody
> uses the USCA as a tax service, nobody using USCA cares about the
> legislative history of a tax bill. Nobody would even go to USCA for
> the
> legislative history of a bill. In fact, these pamphlets are such
> stealth items
> that NOBODY who didn't actually see the pamphlet when it came in
> would know it existed. Where would you go for Legislative History?
> First to the CCH or RIA Tax Services, where you expect a well made
> legislative history pamphlet. Or to USCCAN, where we already pay West
> for legislative history. But not to USCA.
>
> When I see this stuff, I only see $30.00 for West's coffers.
>
> Oh, by the way. You can cancel the tax volumes of Am Jur. If you
> have
> the RIA Tax Coordinator in your library, the Am Jur tax volumes are a
> big
> waste of money that you can give to West for something else. I just
> kept
> the last hardbound one and put a label on it saying cancelled. Just a
> hint.
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