[WEB4LIB] Book Jacket Images for Library Web Pages

David Merchant merchant at bayou.com
Fri Nov 12 10:34:40 EST 1999


>site. In a scathing reply, both on paper and via telephone, Simon and
>Schuster denied us permission. I had initially contacted Amazon.com for

Even if that had some logical reason to deny you, why the insults, the 
ridicule from S&S?  They don't believe in professionalism?  I can't believe 
that they behaved in such a manner, and I'm confused by it.  Why so 
anti-library?  Why can't they see that a library web page show casing their 
items can only help them?  I mean, if my little ol' library page gets about 
1,000 hits a day, I would imagine larger libraries would get much more, and 
that adds up to a fair amount of FREE publicity for their books.

>Needless to say, I'm frustrated, and after talking with Simon and Schuster,
>I'm insulted.

You have every right to be insulted.

TTFN,
David


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