[LM_NET] FW: The Trouble With Amazon

[Christine Rayl <cjrayl@YAHOO.COM>]

Here is a fascinating article that needs to be read! At the end of the article, 
click on page 1 for an additional supportive article on the business practices of 
Amazon with publishers.

Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable. 

Augustine Birrell


--- On Mon, 7/19/10, Kemp, Leora <Leora.Kemp@UNT.EDU> wrote:

> From: Kemp, Leora <Leora.Kemp@UNT.EDU>
> Subject: FW: The Trouble With Amazon
> To: LIBUNLIMITED@unt.edu
> Date: Monday, July 19, 2010, 10:28 AM
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Avery, Beth 
> Sent: Monday, July 19, 2010 9:21 AM
> To: Librarians
> Subject: The Trouble With Amazon
> 
> 
> The Trouble With Amazon | The Nation
> http://www.thenation.com/article/37484/trouble-amazon?page=0%2C1
> 
> 
> An article on the negative impact of Amazon business
> practices on book dealers, readers and publishers.
> 
> The loss of serendipity that comes with not knowing exactly
> what one is looking for is lamented by ex-Amazon editor
> James Marcus: "Personalization strikes me as a mixed
> blessing. While it gives people what they want-or what they
> think they want-it also engineers spontaneity out of the
> picture. The happy accident, the freakish discovery, ceases
> to exist. And that's a problem."
> 
> Beth Avery
> Coordinator, Collection Development
> University of North Texas
> 


      

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