Chicago Manual of Style

Submitted by Joyce Faulkner on January 22, 2012 - 16:46

How many of you have a subscription to the Chicago Manual of Style Online Edition? http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/home.html

This is the the go-to service if you are writing books. I find myself checking issues in my old beat-up volumne often. It's time to toss it and buy the new version. However, the online version would be so handy. If you don't use a specific style, you should. It makes your work professional and adherance to a style, whether it's the Chicago style or not, is one of the criteria MWSA reviewers and judges evaluate.

The normal cost per year is $35. Group discounts are per user up to 50 users. If we purchase subscriptions as a group, we could get decent discounts for the service. Here's the pricing. Any takers?

Small user-group prices, one-year subscription

2–5 members	$35.00 per member
6–10 members	10% discount - $31.50 per member
11–15 members	15% discount - $29.75 per member
16–20 members	20% discount - $28.00 per member
21–50 members	21% discount - $27.65 per member

Small user-group prices, two-year subscription

2–5 members	$30.00 per member per year
6–10 members	10% discount - $27.00 per member per year
11–15 members	15% discount - $25.50 per member per year
16–20 members	20% discount - $24.00 per member per year
21–50 members	21% discount - $23.70 per member per year

Let me know if you are interested.

For those of you who are journalists, you might find the AP Manual of Style Online more useful. Here's the address to their site: http://www.apstylebook.com/

Here's their pricing for group subscriptions:

Site License Pricing

Users	General Orders		AP Members
	First Year	Renewals	First Year	Renewals
10	$200/year	$160/year	$120/year	$72/year
11-25	$400/year	$320/year	$240/year	$144/year
26-50	$800/year	$640/year	$480/year	$288/year
51-100	$1,400/year	$1,000/year	$840/year	$504/year
101-250	$3,500/year	$2,800/year	$2,100/year	$1,260/year
251-500	$7,000/year	$5,600/year	$4,200/year	$2,520/year
501-1,000	$12,000/year	$10,000/year	$7,200/year	$4,320/year
1,001-5,000	$60,000/year	$48,000/year	$36,000/year	$21,600/year
5,001-10,000	$120,000/year	$96,000/year	$72,000/year	$43,200/year