Front Matter
Table of Contents
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Issues, News, & Goings On
From Your Editor
Katina Strauch
Letters to the Editor
Katina Strauch
International Dateline-The British Library and Consultancy Services Offered to Global Clients and How Many Countries Are There in the World? Part II
Eamon Fennessy and Jeffrey M. Wilhite
Features
Mergers and Acquisitions-1998 M&A: The Year in Review
Linda Defendeifer
Annual Review-UK-1998
Martin White
The Future Should Be Cute?
Karen Hunter
Scholarly Societies: Pricing Models for Online Journals
Katherine E. Duff
The De-Commercialisation of Scientific Publishing-Some Thoughts Against the Grain
Edwin Shelock and Igor V. Svitanko
1998 From a Book Vendor's Perspective
Daniel P. Halloran
Op-Ed-Opinions and Editorials
Lloyd Rich
ATG Annual Report Issue Survey Results
Barry Lee and Judy Lee
Judy Webster Remembered-Pt. II
Bill Britten and Aubrey Mitchell
Back Talk-Out of the Box and/or Off the Wall
Anthony W. Ferguson
ATG Interview
Eamon Fennessy, President, The Copyright Group
Katina Strauch
Profiles Encouraged
Reviews
From the Reference Desk
Tom Gilson
Book Reviews-The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder
Tom Leonhartd and Ellen Finnie Duranceau
Testdriving CD-ROMs-Reviews of CD-ROM products
Norman Desmarais
Legal Issues
Legally Speaking-How Recent Litigation Has Impacted the West Publishing Group and the Entire Legal Publishing Industry
Troy Johnson, Jack G. Montgomery, and Anne F. Jennings
Cases of Note-Tasini v The New York Times
Bruce Strauch, Jack G. Montgomery, and Anne F. Jennings
Copyright Questions and Answers
Laura N. Gasaway, Jack G. Montgomery, and Anne F. Jennings
Publishing
Book Pricing Update-Publishing Mergers & Acquisitions: 1998 in Review
Bill Smith and Dan Miller
Bestsellers for 1998
Francoise Crowell and Bob Nardini
Bookselling and Vending
Issues in Vendor-Library Relations-Memoriam of Judy Webster and The Price of Fame: Amazon.com
Barry Fast
Something About Books -Bibliomysteries
Jack Walsdorf
Inside Pandora's Box- Consortia: What Do They Really Hold for the Future?
John R. Secor and Jack G. Montgomery
And They Were There-Reports of Meetings-The 1998 Charleston Conference and Licensing Electronic Resources to Libraries-An ARL Workshop for Publishers
Sever Bordeianu and Julia Gelfand
Biz of Acq-Libraries,Outsourcing, and Integrated Library Systems: Peaceful Coexistance or Contradiction in Terms?
Shelley Neville and Rob Richards
Bet You Missed It
Pamela M. Rose
Technology and Standards
Webworthy-More Science Sites
Pamela M. Rose, Sandra K. Paul, and Albert Simmonds
Innovations Affecting Us-Restraints to Electronic Publishing on the Horizon?
Norman Desmarais, Sandra K. Paul, and Albert Simmonds
Chaos-Show Me the Metadata!
Ed Summers, Sandra K. Paul, and Albert Simmonds
Etc.
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