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Re: Restraint of Trade?
This kind of thinking is what has helped libraries become victims instead of proactive consumers. I still maintain that what library consortia are involved in is asking publishers to recognize their aggregated buying power. We all need win-win solutions. When either side makes a bundle through some sort of connivance, it may be productive in the short run but not the long run. In 50 years from now those around may look upon the past 10-15 years of double digit periodicals inflation as the period in which the industry sowed the seeds of their own distruction. Libraries and publishers need to seek common solutions. tony Anthony W. Ferguson Associate University Librarian Columbia University Libraries Tel. 212-854-2270 _____________________________________ Alan Edelson wrote: > I think there is some misunderstanding of the way the law uses > terminologies, which may differ from every day speech. A conspiracy sounds > malevolent in normal parlance. It has a specific meaning in law, however. > Exchanging pricing information in and of itself should be perfectly safe. > But asking, as was done in the context of the problem caused by the > increase in Nexis prices, "what are you [other Nexis clients] doing about > it", and then sharing those responses, might easily be something lawyers > could play around with. It is prudent to keep this in the back of your > mind. -Alan M. Edelson,Ph.D.
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