I
tried to use the WaybackMachine to view a cached copy of the Champs-Elysees
site, but there’s no copy from 2010. Wikipedia lists the pub as ceased, but references
the publication’s website as its source. J
Ulrich’s still lists it as Active (I contacted them). Other “definitive” answers,
other than Kris’s below, are from this thread on LanguageAdvantage:
http://languageadvantage.com/2010/05/10/champs-elysees-audiomagazines-cease-trading/
and
this thread on an About.com’s French language board:
http://forums.about.com/n/pfx/forum.aspx?tsn=16&nav=messages&webtag=ab-french&tid=24130
These
both reference a letter from the publisher, from May 2010:
Thank you for writing to Champs-Elysées Inc, publisher
since 1983 of audiomagazines in French, Spanish, German, and Italian.
Champs-Elysées Inc. must, after 26 years, suspend daily operations. We're
grateful to our customers for many years of support, and we're sorry that
current circumstances have forced this decision.
Champs-Elysées Inc and its current directors have been sued for several million
dollars in a case regarding company ownership. These lawsuits are unresolved
since 2005. Champs-Elysées Inc has prevailed time and again on applicable law,
yet appeals and new variations on old suits persist. In the end, we find
ourselves nearly 4½ years later seemingly no closer to resolution than when
litigation began. One of our directors died March 10 in court personally
defending himself.
Due to extensive flooding in Nashville, our court date of 7 May 2010 was pushed
back to 14 May 2010. On 13 May 2010, the presiding judge recused herself
from the case. A new judge has not yet been assigned to the case.
We do not know when to expect the next date of any action. While there is
a possibility legal issues might conclude in our favor that day, the increasing
delays seem to make company prospects dimmer. For now, we lack the
resources to fulfill your subscriptions and defend ongoing litigation.
I'd like to thank you all for your support over the years. Despite the
adversity, your repeated enthusiasm for the quality of our programming kept us
going for far longer than I thought possible under the circumstances. I think
we've made a contribution to language learning and cultural understanding.
This message will be updated if/when new information becomes known.
Art Fourier
art@champs-elysees.com
So
it appears to be ceased, and I do not think any of us will be refunded.
According to cached articles from the Nashville Post (http://tinyurl.com/cached-np-ce), and the information
above, it looks like there was some kind of family feud regarding this
publication, which was involved in its ceasing publication. The publication was
based in Nashville.
-Liane
Liane
Taylor
Serials
Acquisitions Librarian
Albert
B. Alkek Library
Texas
State University - San Marcos
601 University Drive • San Marcos • TX •
78666
ltaylor@txstate.edu •
512.245.2643
From: SERIALST: Serials
in Libraries Discussion Forum [mailto:SERIALST@list.uvm.edu] On Behalf Of Kris
Sekely
Sent: Monday, March 07, 2011 3:21 PM
To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
Subject: Re: [SERIALST] Champs-Elysees
I believe as of
7/1/2010 they ceased operations. I got that information last year from www.champs-elysee.com.
Kristine Sekely
Library Serials
Specialist
HACC Library Central
Services
1 Hacc Drive
Harrisburg, PA
17110-2903
tel 717-221-1300 ext
1625
fax 717-901-4526
>>> On 3/7/2011 at 4:16 PM, in message
<20110307161640.jz978hyh9tk0kko8@webmail.uvm.edu>, Birdie MacLennan
<bmaclenn@UVM.EDU> wrote:
Champs-Elysées, the
audio magazine?
Their web site appears to be down <http://www.champs-elysees.com/>and
there are other web sites that say they have ceased operations:
http://languageadvantage.com/2010/05/10/champs-elysees-audiomagazines-cease-trading/
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Has_Champs-Ãlysées_French_Audiomagazine_gone_out_of_business
http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100610125032AA8IsH8
Quoting Mykie Howard <my.howard@MOREHEADSTATE.EDU>:
> Anyone have any luck in getting this title ordered this year?
EBSCO
> can't locate the publisher. I've tried making calls with no
luck.
>
> Thanks,
> Mykie
>
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Mykie Howard
> Serials Librarian / Head, Serials & Gov. Documents
> Morehead State University
> Camden-Carroll Library
> 150 University Dr.
> Morehead, KY 40351
>
> my.howard@moreheadstate.edu<mailto:my.howard@moreheadstate.edu>
> ph:606-783-5116
> fax:606-783-5037
>
>
>
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