RE: FTE-based pricing

[<Toby.GREEN@oecd.org>]

Dick,

I wasn't thinking about deals on a per-journal basis, I was only 
thinking about whole publisher (or, as in the case of the ALPSP 
Collection, multi-publisher) deals. Clearly, when it comes down 
to subscribing to journals one-by-one the most efficient model is 
the one we have today - one price for all.

Toby

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[mailto:owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu] On Behalf Of Richard Gottlieb
Sent: 19 October, 2006 1:19 AM
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Subject: Re: FTE-based pricing

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