Dave's version (RE: License problem with American GeophysicalUnion)

["Dave Fisher" <Dave@library.ucsd.edu>]

Rick - Thanks for your insights. You raise legitimate concerns and I
applaud your tenacity.  It can only work to everyone's favor ultimately.

AGU had a tremendous learning curve as they entered the online market
place, both licensing and price wise.  We've only licensed G-cubed as a
site license thus far.  Now that they've liberalized their pricing
structure - which only came about because no one would or could pay the
extraordinary sums they were asking for a site license - UC is once again
exploring site licensing their entire journal list.  As Pete Brueggeman,
the SIO Librarian paraphrased it in a recent conversation, AGU has the
distinction of being the publisher who gave an ejournal and no one came.
They had virtually no institutional subscribers last year.

Dave Fisher