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Re: NEJM

Is the use of the term "price gouging" really appropriate here? I would
suggest that it has to be used sparingly in the sense that one person's
"pricing gouging" is another person's "reasonable profit". But in this
case NEJM is not making a profit but a surplus. As a learned body, its
owners probably have to make available accounts. Do they show an
unneccessary surplus which Mr. Williams wants them to give away?

Anthony Watkinson
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Bladon
Woodstock
Oxfordshire
England OX20 1RW
phone +44 1993 811561 and fax +44 1993  810067


----- Original Message -----
From: Tom Williams <twilliam@bbl.usouthal.edu>
To: <liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2001 11:02 PM
Subject: RE: NEJM

> Yes Rick, the publishers want to sell and we want to give it away.
> However, we are more than willing to pay a fair price for the privilege of
> "giving it away."  It's the price gouging that we can't tolerate and the
> restrictions on use.
>
> --
> Thomas L. Williams, AHIP
> Director, Biomedical Libraries and
>  Media Production Services
> University of South Alabama
> College of Medicine
> Mobile, Al 36688-0002
> tel. (251)460-6885
> fax. (251)460-7638
> twilliam@bbl.usouthal.edu