<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">We only limited out a tiny handful of "predatory" publishers whose names won't be mentioned here for fear of lawsuits, until last spring. Then, we were informed that a few publishers, including one major scholarly publisher who also won't be named, had significantly increased their "STL" price as a percentage of the book price to a level that we considered violates the entire point of STLs. So our response was to work with our PDA profiles, YBP, to exclude those publishers, and with the PDA book vendors to retroactively remove all of those publishers's ebooks from our existing set.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">I strongly believe that we as a community need to send a loud and clear message to the publishers that if they engage in these practices that undermine these wonderful new technologies, they will lose, not gain, profit by doing so. They can hold us hostage to price increases in the journal sector of the industry, but not on the books. Being included in our PDA profiles should be considered by them a marketing privilege that we offer their products only if they deserve it.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Melissa Belvadi, UPEI</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 5:49 PM, Mary Beeker <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mbeeker@nmc.edu" target="_blank">mbeeker@nmc.edu</a>></span> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Sorry if this isn't the best place to ask this question, please let me know if I should post elsewhere...<div><br></div><div>Can anyone share their philosophy/advice on including publishers in their PDA collection?</div><div>We've had some rude shocks seeing what is available in our new PDA collection. We're wondering whether to exclude publishers from the entire PDA profile, or perhaps to include publishers in certain call number ranges, but not in others (e.g. our clinical nursing section)</div><div><br></div><div>We're a community college, so we need some intro-level books, but reliability is key to us. </div><div><br></div><div>If this becomes an interesting discussion, I'm happy to collect responses and share them.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks all!</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div>- Mary<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div>Mary Beeker<br>Northwestern Michigan College - Osterlin Library<br><a href="mailto:mbeeker@nmc.edu" target="_blank">mbeeker@nmc.edu</a><br><a href="tel:%28231%29%20995-1015" value="+12319951015" target="_blank">(231) 995-1015</a><br></div>
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<br></blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Melissa Belvadi</div><div>Collections Librarian</div><div>University of Prince Edward Island</div><div><a href="mailto:mbelvadi@upei.ca" target="_blank">mbelvadi@upei.ca</a> 902-566-0581</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div>
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