That’s what this recent post on LISLAW (UK) indicates..
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A librarian posted the following information yesterday.. not sure about LN’s explanation and what amazes us that in 2010 they can still argue that the printed version subsidizes the electronic, we’d have thought it would be the other way around.
And anyway why should they even argue to clients that one version subsidizes the other, years after the core of Halsbury’s has been digitized.
We have recently considered cancelling our print version of Halsbury?s Statutes and relying on the electronic version only. When we discussed this proposal with Lexis-Nexis their response was to say that the electronic equivalent of? Halsbury?s Statutes would increase in cost from around ?2,000 to ?8,000.
The reason that they give was that the printed version subsidises the electronic and that the prices are standard across academic libraries (depending upon the package purchased).
