[Publib] Amazon's Library Processing

[Judy Anderson]

I can't comment on their processing, but I would be wary. They are less than 
fully honest about book availability. I had a large order with them and 
after four months, I still was missing $1300 worth. The website said the 
books were available in 24 hours during that time.

If they mislead about book availability, I would wonder about how fast it 
really takes them to process materials and how accurately they would do 
them.

Judy Anderson
Oregon
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>From: "K.G. Schneider" <kgs at bluehighways.com>

>My guess is this has been slowly evolving, but an article on LISNews 
>alerted
>me that Amazon has been getting into the library processing market,
>apparently in a big way:
>
>http://tinyurl.com/pxht6
>
>I'm curious about this and am considering writing a column about it for ALA
>Techsource (http://techsource.ala.org ) or at least having a discussion 
>here
>on PUBLIB.
>
>Have any of you tried Amazon's library services? Are there advantages?
>Disadvantages? Fast? Slow? Processing ok? Do you need a vendor that ties in
>with your ILS?
>
>I was tempted to set up a corporate account and order my next personal 
>batch
>of books from Amazon with MARC records, barcodes, and spine labels, just to
>see what it was like...
>
>Karen G. Schneider
>kgs at bluehighways.com

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