H.W. Wilson Ceases Publication of Cumulative Book Index After 101 Years

Staff -- Library Journal, 1/10/2000

The H.W. Wilson Company has announced that it has terminated the Cumulative Book Index after 101 years in existence. The product, which was the company's first publication in 1898, reportedly became "too expensive to manufacture," and had fallen victim to declining subscriptions, a company representative told LJDigital. It is still undetermined if an electronic version may live on beyond the demise of the paper product, but chances are slight. Geoff Warton, Wilson VP of sales and marketing told LJDigital that the company "will publish the annual that is due out in March of this year for 1999, but beyond that I think it will just be gone."