There is a major discussion of this same topic on PAMNET, an SLA
listserv.  You might want to Google the archives.   It seems Nature has
purchased several journals and hiked all of the prices including
Scientific American.  Also the Scientific American archive that was
available through Ebscohost will no longer be available.

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From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum
[mailto:SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU] On Behalf Of Sarah D. Tusa
Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2009 8:25 AM
To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
Subject: Re: [SERIALST] Publisher price increase!!!!

Rhetorical question?  (Yep, new publisher, new price hike.)

Sarah
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From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum
[mailto:SERIALST@list.uvm.edu] On Behalf Of Janzen, Junie C. (HSC)
Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2009 9:20 AM
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Yes, we got the notice yesterday, too.   Scientific American now belongs
to the Nature Publishing Group.  Anybody think this might be part of the
reason?

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[SERIALST@list.uvm.edu] On Behalf Of Stephen Clark [sdclar@WM.EDU]
Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2009 9:08 AM
To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
Subject: [SERIALST] Publisher price increase!!!!

Hello,

We just received a notice from our subscription agent that Scientific
American was raising their print subscription price for 2010 from $41.91
(which includes the agent's service charge) to $299.00  Has anyone else
received this outrageous increase notice?

We are in the process of contacting the publisher to find out what might
be the cause of this dramatic price rise.

Stephen

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