[WEB4LIB] Re: The OPAC as Portal - Not!

[Tony Barry]

At 11:47 AM -0700 21/10/99, Dan Lester wrote:
>I'm not assuming anything about
>what might or might not, could or could not, be done with Amazon or
>others.  I'm simply suggesting one way in which working with them might be
>a good thing.  Or, it might not.  Or, there might be a better
>way.   However, I'm not ready to automatically dump the idea of working
>with them "just because".

One thing a library can do is make make money via the Amazon Associates
program
<http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/subst/partners/associates/associates.html> as
I proposed a year or so ago
<http://Tony-Barry.emu.id.au/e-says/sponsor.shtml> and which the Australian
National University Library has recently done.

Tony


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