From: Richard Gottlieb <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Fri, 1 May 2015 10:05:26 -0400

Martin was an imaginative publisher. But he did have some strange
ideas. Met him in the '70's.  He was convinced that the FBI/CIA was
bugging his phone, due to his anti-war activity.

Dick Gottlieb

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From: MICHAEL A KELLER <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2015 16:55:49 -0700

To fully appreciate the perfidy of Martin Gordon, please see:

http://barschall.stanford.edu

Please realize that Martin Gordon sued the widow of our good friend
and admirable scholar Heinz Barschall on the case in question.

Michael A. Keller
 University Librarian
 Publisher Stanford University Press
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-6004
U.S.A.
email: [log in to unmask]

homepage: https://cap.stanford.edu/profiles/stanford/Michael_Keller/



On Apr 26, 2015, at 5:30 PM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

From: "Hamaker, Charles" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2015 23:53:19 +0000

http://www.hommages.ch/Announcements/pdf/32CC6E8CEEA40C65910A92A837A0DDCD.pdf

As a friend said to me in his email to point this out,  Another era passing.

He was 82. Probably best known to the Internet  era as the man who
sued Harry Barschall and the AIP.

Martin Gordon founded G&B in 1961 and  implemented some innovations in
the STM field, including if memory serves, speed shipping for STM
journals.

He may have been the last of the larger STM publishers(300 journals at
one point) not to publish journals on a regular schedule, or even with
a predictable annual subscription rate.

Issues were released in a "flow" system,  when there was enough
"content" to fill an issue and for however many issues there was
content for that year, more or less.

That was in a German tradition common during the between the war
years,  when libraries never knew how many issues were coming from a
journal, or how much the yearly cost would be. And or course when the
German's did it their physics and chemistry journals were some of the
most watched and waited for journals in the world.

Most STM  journals moved to regularly scheduled issues with
predictable pricing by the time I became a librarian. in the early
1970's I suspect Robert Maxwell might have had something to do with
that.

Chuck