From: "Jason Marcakis (On behalf of Wouter van der Velde) Springer" <[log in to unmask]> Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 12:11:59 -0500 Dear Dr. Vijayakumar, Springer sells our eBook collections by copyright year, and we take great care to project the number of titles that will be offered in each package for each copyright year. We almost never under-produce within a package, and have license clauses to protect the client if we ever do. In fact, over-production of titles in a package year is given to the client at no charge, and happens more frequently than not. Springer publishes around 20 books every day, and traditionally uses a copyright year that runs from October to September. When a Springer editor contracts an author to write a book for us, we estimate the publication date and update our systems the closer a manuscript comes to final acceptance. The estimated date of publication can be years in the future, and as soon as we can announce a book, it appears on springer.com with the estimated copyright year. This is why patrons see a large number of books with copyright year 2014 announced, not published. As I said before, our copyright year generally runs from October to September. However, you may see a few titles which are already published in the new copyright year since the book-publishing process can sometimes unexpectedly accelerate at the last moment. Some authors speed up their response times in the final stages of publication so that a book can be published sooner than expected, while we anticipated that the book would be published after the copyright year change date. The contrary can also happen when a final manuscript can only be typeset after the due date (and the book will carry the previous copyright year). The number of eBooks carrying copyright year 2014 that have already been published is limited to only 14 titles. Should any of these titles not fall into one of our customer’s collections, because the 2014 packages have not yet been purchased, Springer will always find an access solution together with its customer. I hope this helps to clear up any confusion or misunderstandings. With kind regards, Wouter - Wouter van der Velde Senior eProduct Manager eBooks eProduct Marketing www.springer.com/ebooks