Do I spot a new publishing trend? 1999 may be the year we have to try
to righteously smite Lexis Legal Publishing for their newest sales wrinkle.
We just received a two volume paperback set bound to match Michie's
Jurisprudence of Va and WVa called the "Caselaw Citator." Needless to
say this never existed before. This new one comes only a week after
we received the Maryland Code Annotation Citator bound to match the
Maryland Code. The cost of the Michies is $71.86. And it was sent with
no card or letter explaining what it is or purports to be.
For shame, LLP. Are you going to try to sneak one of these into every
state code and large set you sell? If so, every librarian should be on the
lookout for these. I am going to send my typical 39 USC 3009 letter for
this one and toss it out.
What galls me even more than the underhanded way they are trying to
sneak these in under our radar, is the audacity of supposedly reputable
LLP in selling these "Shepards Lite' publications to the very customers
who have whole sets of the real red Shepards volumes, the Shepards
CDs or use Shepards online in their firms. Is not the money we pay for
the real things enough? Or do you think we are dumb enough to pay
thousands for the red volumes and also an extra 39.95 or 71.00 for
these in addition for every LLP set or code we own? Is there anyone at
LLP who has actually visited a law library and actually looked around?
HAs anyone noticed these Citators appearing with other sets?
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