Comments on: Libraries and Amazon http://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2011/01/19/libraries-and-amazon/ the neverending reference interview of life Fri, 17 May 2013 00:38:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: 几篇关于电子书的文章 | Nalsi的西文编目笔记III http://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2011/01/19/libraries-and-amazon/#comment-4429 Sun, 08 May 2011 11:10:02 +0000 https://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2011/01/19/libraries-and-amazon/#comment-4429 [...] Maybe: Libraries and Amazon [...]

]]> By: Andy http://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2011/01/19/libraries-and-amazon/#comment-2939 Thu, 27 Jan 2011 04:57:47 +0000 https://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2011/01/19/libraries-and-amazon/#comment-2939 As soon as B&N and IndieBound have associate programs, I’m sure libraries will be looking to make the most out of their associations with corporations. Do either of those companies have something like that?

]]> By: gous http://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2011/01/19/libraries-and-amazon/#comment-2934 Wed, 26 Jan 2011 16:08:03 +0000 https://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2011/01/19/libraries-and-amazon/#comment-2934 Nothing wrong with this except for it being Amazon. They have not shown themselves to be particularly library friendly.
http://stephenslighthouse.com/2011/01/14/will-kindle-ever-add-support-for-library-books/

Why not B&N? Or even better IndieBound? It really does seem sometimes as if libraries want to make themselves irrelevant to the coming digital era.

]]> By: Libraries and Amazon | The Digital Reader http://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2011/01/19/libraries-and-amazon/#comment-2933 Wed, 26 Jan 2011 15:55:18 +0000 https://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2011/01/19/libraries-and-amazon/#comment-2933 [...] by Andy Woodworth [...]

]]> By: Andy http://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2011/01/19/libraries-and-amazon/#comment-2885 Fri, 21 Jan 2011 04:36:15 +0000 https://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2011/01/19/libraries-and-amazon/#comment-2885 As to your last point, that’s like saying you’re not going to the dance because you didn’t get asked. Sometimes you have to get dressed and go.

‘Try before you buy’ may not work for everyone, but giving people an alternative to own what they like, an outlet to do, and a benefit to the library is a sensible alternative in my mind. Why not capitalize on this interaction to the benefit of the library?

]]> By: Andy http://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2011/01/19/libraries-and-amazon/#comment-2884 Fri, 21 Jan 2011 04:32:42 +0000 https://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2011/01/19/libraries-and-amazon/#comment-2884 Oh, very nice! Yeah, what you call it is important to get people in the mindset for the spending. “Oh, I can buy [X] and have it benefit the library? Sweet!”

]]> By: Andy http://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2011/01/19/libraries-and-amazon/#comment-2883 Fri, 21 Jan 2011 04:21:41 +0000 https://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2011/01/19/libraries-and-amazon/#comment-2883 That sounds pretty awesome, David! I look forward to seeing how that would work out. Statistics are king in this conversation, methinks.

]]> By: Andy http://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2011/01/19/libraries-and-amazon/#comment-2882 Fri, 21 Jan 2011 04:20:14 +0000 https://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2011/01/19/libraries-and-amazon/#comment-2882 To me, it sounds more like a setting or environment that Amazon cannot create: a destination in which people can interact with. That’s my take on your patron’s observation. I think it is one of the major advantages that the public library has over, well, any online retailer.

Would I pair etsy with Amazon? Sure, why not? They have an excellent platform for moving product. Is it the same as etsy? No, but I wouldn’t see an issue with expanding the opportunities for merchants to sell their wares. Hmm. I’d have to think on this one. I might have a better answer than that one.

]]> By: Andy http://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2011/01/19/libraries-and-amazon/#comment-2881 Fri, 21 Jan 2011 04:16:46 +0000 https://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2011/01/19/libraries-and-amazon/#comment-2881 I hadn’t seen the other reactions, but I did think that it was a bit big in comparison to other items on the page. Granted, this is a money making venture so some prominence would be in order, in my opinion.

]]> By: Andy http://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2011/01/19/libraries-and-amazon/#comment-2880 Fri, 21 Jan 2011 04:15:41 +0000 https://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2011/01/19/libraries-and-amazon/#comment-2880 I disagree with you to a certain extent, Steve. If you were to come to my library, I’d be trying to do a certain amount of selling. Databases and ebooks are commodities that the library buys that it wants to have its patrons use. They are provided by outside vendors. That databse and those ebooks don’t have our name on them; they have either Gale or EBSCO or Overdrive on them. In essence, I am diverting you to a corporation that we (the library) do business with.

I’d argue it’s the same for you at the academic level where you try to ‘sell’ database use to students and faculty.

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