RE: Nature by May 1

["Peter V. Picerno" <ppicerno@utmem.edu>]

 .... but the publisher of _Nature_ isn't the only one who does this ...
some of the major publishers and vendors of scholarly information of all
types engage in this demeaning behavior! Ask any Collection Development
librarian!

Peter Picerno

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Sent: Monday, April 30, 2001 3:18 PM
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Subject: Re: Nature by May 1


As I told someone in the New York office of Nature, this marketing
strategy is more suited to a door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesperson,
rather than a publisher of premier scholarly scientific research.

JL


On Fri, 27 Apr 2001 15:04:14 EDT Paula Watson
<pdwatson@uiuc.edu> wrote:

# Sign a flawed, presumably, non-negotiable license, find the
# money by May 1 and you can save enough money to make it
# worth your while.   Say  no  now and it'll cost  you even
# more later.  Don't be the last on your block to get Nature.
# Tuesday will be too late.
#
# What 's the logic of this marketing strategy?


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