Re: FTE-based pricing

["Richard Gottlieb" <rhg2@greyhouse.com>]

Toby's proposal is quite logical. However quite impractical. It 
calls for the publisher to negotiate, monitor and periodically 
adjust the contract terms for every institutional subscription. 
Additional staff of one to three moderately competent staffers to 
manage a single journal. Now consider that a given publisher 
might have 10-30-50, or in the case of the giants, hundreds of 
journals.All of these costs will affect pricing negatively. Won't 
happen.

Dick Gottlieb
Grey House