(August 2007)

First firm periodicals invoice for 2008 to be generated Sept. 19, 2007:

HARRASSOWITZ is planning to run its first firm-price-based invoice for subscription year 2008 on September 19. This invoice will be dated September 24, 2007, and will be sent to all libraries that have chosen the firm-price-based invoicing option and have not set up special invoice dates with HARRASSOWITZ. It will include only periodicals for which HARRASSOWITZ has received firm prices from the publisher and which have been ordered on an "until forbid" basis. Subscriptions subject to annual renewal will not be included.

In order to avoid having to cancel any invoices immediately after they have been produced, HARRASSOWITZ strongly encourages libraries to let us know, by September 1 if possible, of any changes you are planning, including new orders, cancellations, upgrades, and format changes. If you know that changes are coming, but cannot let us know all the details before September 1, please give us advance warning that some changes are coming and let us know as much as you can, so that we can either delay the invoice or exclude specific publishers or journals from this invoice run.

We would like to take this opportunity to remind our periodicals customers of the HARRASSOWITZ cancellation policy: HARRASSOWITZ should receive your cancellation requests by September 1, in order to comply with publishers' cancellation deadlines. HARRASSOWITZ will make every effort to negotiate cancellations received after September 1; however, we cannot guarantee that the publishers will accept cancellations after their announced deadlines. Cancellations may be requested in writing, by e-mail, or through OttoSerials, HARRASSOWITZ's online management system for periodicals and
standing orders.

Since publishers are asking for renewal files earlier every year and are imposing penalties for late renewals, it is very important for us to receive your cancellations as early as possible. Publishers have also become more restrictive about cancellations when a customers asks to cancel a subscription after it has already been renewed by us.