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From: Joseph Esposito <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 11:14:47 -0800

I have been trying for some time now to figure out how many academic
books, university press books in particular, are sold to libraries.
It turns out that this is a tough problem.  I just posted on this
here:

http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2012/02/22/hawking-radiation-figuring-out-how-many-books-are-sold-to-libraries-2/

The question comes down to how many libraries purchase books from
Amazon and to what extent.  Sales from other library vendors are
pretty much known.  But Amazon is a black hole.

I would be interested to learn more about libraries' use of Amazon as a vendor.

Joe Esposito

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