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Sports Illustrated subscribers often look forward to their annual swimsuit edition. What happens when Sports Illustrated refuses to send the swimsuit edition out? Subscribers fume. Unfortunately, Sports Illustrated is exercising their decision not to send the issue to libraries which hold active subscriptions:

I am a librarian at the University of Dallas. We have not received our issue of the Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition even though we have an active subscription. The serials discussion list I am on has been abuzz on this topic. It turns out no libraries have received their issues. The publisher has decided not to send it to any institutions. Librarians who call in to complain are being offered an subscription extension of two issues. That will not satisfy patrons who are looking for the swimsuit edition. They’ll just have to go buy it on the newsstand (surely that’s not the publisher’s intent!)

It should be up to the institution to decide whether or not they choose to make the issue available to patrons. The publisher should send the issues we’ve paid for. If we throw them in the trash, that’s our prerogative.

All of this coming by way of the Consumerist (a great read for anything customer service oriented). I don’t know about anyone else, but if I paid for a full subscription, I expect the FULL subscription. Read more a the Library Journal.