[WEB4LIB] Re: The "Commericialized" Library

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I Have been receiving your mail along with numerous irrelevant ones without my authorization. 
Should it be an error, you are invited to clear the problem at your side or at your provider's by removing my address from your list, otherwise I would be compelled to daily flood your box with 1500 silly messages from our 245 different addresses throughout the world until you stop flooding ours.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Nancy Sosna Bohm 
  To: Multiple recipients of list 
  Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2000 3:04 AM
  Subject: [WEB4LIB] Re: The "Commericialized" Library


  Re:
  > >Just a note...  I know that some public libraries have had complaints
  from >the local "little guy" book stores.  As in:  "Why are you promoting
  Goliath >(Amazon, B&N) and ignoring David's Book store?!".
  >
  >        Yes. I now recall e-list discussion on the topic.
  >
  > > Don't forget that if a local bookseller is paying taxes in your
  comminity they >may have cause to complain.  And often, the local bookstore
  is the one >who will be supporting your summer reading program.
  >
  >These are valid points, however ....Linking *may* stimulate a user to visit
  his/her local library to borrow the book  and/or to purchase the book from
  the *local* book store.



  And the local bookstore owner could be invited to submit reviews by his
  staff for posting on the library page with a credit line of "so-an-so of The
  Corner Bookstore reviews..."


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