medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Monograph purchases by libraries decline under pressure from
subscription costs. To be very blunt, the big fish (Sci Tech &
Medicine) eat up the smaller fish (especially Humanities) at all too
many places.
And even our Humanities subscriptions, Journals and Databases, are
inflating faster than the budgets of most libraries can bear. The
current inflation of Humanities journals is running over 10% per year,
and each year's inflation builds on their year's increased price.
This is the sort of calculation I do for a living, & the news just gets
more grim each year.
Tom
Thomas Izbicki
Collection Development Coordinator
Eisenhower Library
Johns Hopkins
Baltimore, MD 21218
(410)516-7173
fax (410)516-8399
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medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and
culture
From: Thomas Izbicki <[log in to unmask]>
> Even I gasped at the list price,
>> Art and architecture of late medieval pilgrimage in Northern Europe
and the
British Isles, ed. Sarah Blick; Rita Tekippe (Leiden ; Boston :
Brill, 2005).
well, if an hardened lieberrian, innured to spending other people's
money,
"gasps" at the price of a book, we know that some kind of Limit is
being
approached.
>but it is a must for many fields.
and i'm sure that is the way that the Boys at Brill justified the price
to
themselves.
"We can't price them any lower because we don't sell enough of them,"
is the
way their otherwise rational rep. Julian explained Economies of Scale
in the
Publishing Industry to me a few years ago at the Zoo.
Jim Bugslag was kind enough to send me an offprint of his
contribution,
"Pilgrimage to Chartres Cathedral: The Visual Evidence".
typographically it is done well enough; the plates are o.k., though
not
spectacular; but it is "perfect bound" (which is to binding what
Duhbya's
"Clear Skies Initiative" is to air pollution), i.e., the damned thing
is
*glued* together as seperate pages, rather than being in signatures.
which means that it starts to fall apart at the first reading.
i *presume* that the book itself isn't put together in that shoddy
fashion.
for, what was it, $200 or so?
publishers like Brill are the reason why God, in Her wisdom, invented
the
photocopy machine, best i can see.
c
"Even the Smallest Dog
Can lift his Leg
On the Tallest Building"
"Bumpersticker I saw on a pickup truck last year in Austin : 'Where are
we
going? And what am I doing in this hand basket?'"
--Jim Hightower
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