EBSCO and Gale Trade Barbs Over Exclusive Contracts and Rights to Distribution

Coverage of and documents relevant to the competition for magazine content contracts

-- Library Journal, 01/28/2010

LJ's original coverage of the competition for popular magazine content contracts:

• EBSCO’s Exclusive Deal for Consumer Magazines Provokes Gale Statement, EBSCO Response
  • Popular magazines from Time, Inc., Forbes, others, involved
• EBSCO vs. Gale: Time Inc. Says It Sought Exclusive Contract
  • Gale says Time only wanted an exclusive regarding distribution

Other documents:

• Message from Sue Maszaros of the Tennessee State Library and Archives
• Gale "open letter to the library community"

From EBSCO:

• EBSCO's Response to Gale's letter
• ICOLC Questions with EBSCO's Answers
• State Library of Arizona Question and EBSCO Answer

Commentary:

• Joyce Valenza on School Library Journal
• Jessamyn West on Boing Boing
• Dorothea Salo on The Book of Trogool

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