Pricing and Costs of Monographs and Serials

Sul H. Lee

1. Introduction Sul H. Lee 2. Pricing From Three Perspectives: The Publisher, the Wholesaler, the Library Kent Hendrickson 3. The Approval Connection: Pricing the Ordering Alternatives Jennifer Cargill 4. Truth in Vending Leonard Schrift 5. Books Across the Waters: An Examination of United Kingdom Monographic Pricing Dana Alessi 6. Mountains and Molehills: How University Presses Determine Book Prices and How Those Prices Relate to Library Budgets George W. Bauer 7. Acquisitions Costs: How the Selection of a Purchasing Source Affects the Cost of Processing Materials Edna Laughrey 8. Differential Pricing of Monographs and Serials Christian M. Boissonnas 9. The Cost of Global Serials: The Vendor's Perspective Kit Kennedy 10. The Library's Cost and the Vendor's Price for Serials James T. Stephens 11. Materials Costs and Collection Development in Academic Libraries Lenore Clark