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June 5, 2008
Marketing Public Libraries
Hmmmm. A little more marketing needed. This is from one of my favourite humour blogs, the FAIL blog.
Just case you can't read this chat posting, it says:
"book rental service?
was just thinking. my sister does -alot- of reading, and spends like $1000 a year on just books alone. most of them she reads once then never looks at again. is there any kind of like…video rental store but for books? would make things alot cheaper, plus once one person had read one the next person can get enjoyment from it etc."
Hmmmm.
Stephen
Posted by stephen at June 5, 2008 9:16 AM
Comments
I saw that on a blog about a month or two ago, and ended up seeing it discussed on several different websites. One website had a comment which claimed that the originator of the post was actually trying to start up a "book rental" service, and was making fake posts such as this to drum up interest. I don't know if that's true (I can't imagine such a venture being successful) but if it is, it does sort of explain things a bit. It's a bit disheartening to think that the post is real and someone is actually this clueless.
Posted by: Jaclyn McKewan at June 5, 2008 12:22 PM
Like a Netflix for books? There's http://www.bookswim.com/, but I don't know how good their selection is for avid readers.
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Why pay when it's free to all with a pubic library card?
SA
Posted by: Erik Sandall at June 5, 2008 4:41 PM
Isn't this competing with ILL services? I'm like your sister and only read a book once. But because I'm too frugal to spend hundreds of dollars on books for my personal reading, I utilize ILL which is a great service. I work in an academic library and I'm always amazed at the "I didn't know that" look I get when I tell a library user who is not part of our academic community that the public library can obtain books for them on ILL. I think we need to promote those services more. Just my two cents worth. Samantha
Posted by: Samantha Thompson-Franklin at June 6, 2008 5:32 PM