Document delivery from the library catalogue

[Elisabeth Roche]

Remember the outrage when Open Text was accused of selling hit list
positioning for search results?

Well, there is another view to take a look at when considering the
Amazon.com partnering plans, (not to mention the disaffection as to actual
revenues ever received you often see posted on the hwg-l or wwwacs-l
newsgroups.)

Excite (I believe it is them) has made a similar arrangement with
Amazon.com. When a person puts in a search for a book, they will be
provided with the URL to Amazon.com so they can so handily go purchase it.

Thoughts? Discussions? Off-topic? Just say so.

Elisabeth Roche  eroche at sisna.com
serendipity RULES!


At 07:43 PM 8/18/97 -0700, Tony Barry wrote:
>At 3:17 PM 18/8/97, Mark Stover wrote:
>>We developed links from each book's ISBN number in our library catalog to
>>the Amazon bookstore.  Since we are members of Amazon's Associates program,
>>each time someone travels through our catalog to Amazon and purchases an
>>Amazon book, we get a small kickback (up to 15% of the book's price).  It
>>doesn't happen very often, but it's cool when it does happen.
>
>Aaagghh!!!  Gazumpded! My next posting was going to propose just this!
>Booksellers and Librarians have common ground and common clientele. Often
>when you read a book from a library you want to buy a copy.  I was also
>going to suggest that the web opac should be geared so that unsuccessful
>searchs could be redirected to the bookshop.  A competing sponsorship model
>could be interested. Offer redirections let Amozon and  Barnes and Noble
>quote for the business and sponsorship of the catalogue.
>
>Well done Phillips Graduate Institute!!
>
>Tony
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