[Publib] Amazon's Library Processing

[Houghton, Sarah]

I agree in part; their book availability is not always accurate.  But that runs off of a database related to their stock warehouses.  I'm not sure that that translates to any other service they offer, including processing, being totally worthless.  How well someone's warehouse database is maintained and how well they'll put a spine label on your book are very different things.
 
Sarah Houghton, Information and Web Services Manager
San Mateo County Library

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From: publib-bounces at webjunction.org on behalf of Judy Anderson
Sent: Tue 8/1/2006 5:56 PM
To: publib at webjunction.org
Subject: RE: [Publib] Amazon's Library Processing



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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