I had heard of this happening for sites like Google but didn't realize
amazon.com was also a participant. The article provides background on the
program but it doesn't answer Jonathan's question about what is the incentive
for a commericial entity such as amazon.com (whose goal is to sell books) to
inform users that a book could be had for free at their nearest library?
Its a particularly interesting situation for artists book whose sometimes one of
a kind nature makes them only available in libraries.
TRISH ROSE
Image Metadata Librarian
Union Catalog for Art Images
(UCAI) Project
Geisel Library MC 0175K
UC San Diego
La Jolla, CA
92093-0175
Perhaps this is not news to many people out there but
it is news to me. I have made some artists' books (unique items) and somehow
they have shown up in amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-form/102-1797474-5668926
The
second one particularly is a single object, now owned by Wellesley. There
would be no record of it anywhere except the catalog record created at
Wellesley and then perhaps uploaded to OCLC. One clue is that the titles are
in lower case, as in a catalog record, and unlike most book listings on
Amazon.
Why would Amazon want to clog up it's system with books that
will never be for sale? Has this topic been discussed
anywhere?
Jonathan Lill
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