The main reasons for geographical price differences go to currency exchange and postal rates. Then, there is always inflation and declining circulation.

I wrote a couple of articles about it in the 1990s.

Forecasting Changes in Periodicals Prices. Serials Librarian 21:4 33-43 http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1300/J123v21n04_02#preview

Forecasting Prices of Foreign Science Journals. Serials Librarian 23:1/2 129-134 1993 http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1300/J123v23n01_10#preview

Electronic distribution was not covered, but I hope you find them helpful.

Best wishes,

Albert Henderson,
former editor, Publishing Research Quarterly

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From: Daniel Reiss <DReiss@AOAC.ORG>
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Subject: [SERIALST] Publisher Question: regional price variations for periodicals?

Please excuse me if I'm not posting this question in the appropriate forum or 
format!

I'm looking for other publishers' experiences with regional pricing adjustment. 
Some regions have a much higher incidence of delivery exception and my company 
is considering charging more for subscriptions delivered to these regions. 

Does anyone here have experience with this situation either as publisher or 
subscriber? 

Thanks in advance and happy Friday to all.

Kind regards,

Daniel

Daniel Reiss
Customer Service Coordinator
AOAC INTERNATIONAL
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