Dear List,
We are extremely sorry to hear about the bankruptcy of Swets. We have been
dealing with Swets (and from Blackwells subscription agency, which merged
into Swets) for about twenty years now. The inconvenience and potential
loss for libraries and publishers obviously pales beside the consequences
for the 100 or so highly skilled Swets employees who face sudden
joblessness, in some cases after long careers.
Naturally under the circumstances, we must ask all our library customers to
use another route to place their Philosophy Now subscription orders for
2015. Many of our subscription orders come through Ebsco or Prenax, but of
course we are happy to receive subscription orders through any agency, or
indeed directly. Institutional purchases of Print or IP Access
subscriptions can be made directly on our secure website at:
https://philosophynow.org/institutions
If you have already placed and paid for a 2015 Philosophy Now subscription
order via Swets, please contact me. Though your payment is almost certainly
lost, we will honour your Swets order so long as you can provide proof of
purchase.
Next week we will be directly contacting our library customers who
regularly subscribed through Swets. However, although we can contact all
our IP access customers, we lack direct email addresses for some print-only
customers. And we lack any contact information at all for those customers
who purchased via the Swets consolidation service, though we will be
attempting to recover the relevant information from the receivers. So if
this includes you, please get in touch.
Best wishes,
Rick Lewis
Publisher, Philosophy Now magazine
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