Publishers Face Pressure From Libraries to Freeze Prices and Cut Deals

April 3, 2009 - 4:30pm — Megan

From the Chronicle of Higher Education comes an article about possible price freezing for libraries.

"LET'S MAKE A DEAL (MAYBE): The publishers' hall at the recent Association of College and Research Libraries conference, held in Seattle in mid-March, was a study in give-and-take: how much publishers such as Elsevier and Oxford University Press will give in this lousy economy, and how much budget-strapped librarians can take."