Document delivery from the library catalogue

[Tony Barry]

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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