Re: Serials Payment Dates

["Rollo Turner" <rollo.turner@onet.co.uk>]

Yes, I quite take this point and for the last year the ASA has been
campaigning to persuade publishers to price in good time. I believe we
have had some success and prices this year have been, in general, earlier
than last I think.

Rollo Turner
Secretary General
Association of Subscription Agents and Intermediaries
10 Lime Avenue
High Wycombe
Bucks HP11 1DP
UK
Tel +44 (0)1494 534778
www.subscription-agents.org
Email rollo.turner@onet.co.uk

----- Original Message -----
From: "Christine Taft" <taftc@lindahall.org>
To: <liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 10:48 PM
Subject: Re: Serials Payment Dates

> Although I do not now deal with serials renewals I did a few years ago.
> I believe that we frequently did not get information about price increases
> until sometime in October.  This makes it very difficult to make informed
> decisions about serials renewals, much less payments by early November.
> One partial solution would be to decide on prices earlier so that serials
> librarians could begin to make decisions earlier.