From: Joseph Esposito <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2016 21:16:05 -0400

Jim,

I think ILL is destined to die a long and painful death, but will it
be POD from Amazon or anyone else or demand-driven acquisitions that
finally inserts the knife? Admittedly the formatting of library ebooks
remains a significant problem, but assuming that gets remedied (3
years? 5?), aren't the cost factors entirely on the side of DDA?

Joe Esposito

On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 7:22 PM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> From: "Jim O'Donnell" <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2016 14:57:51 -0700
>
> Starting in my own condo building but encouraged by the New York Times
>
> (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/09/realestate/the-doormans-dilemma-what-to-do-with-all-those-packages.html?emc=eta1)
>
> I observe a national trend in package room crises.  Too many boxes
> being delivered to residences and even offices and no place to put
> them.  (If you live in an apartment building and they accept your
> packages for you, look to see where they are stashing them:  it can
> get ugly.)
>
> So then Amazon appears.  Amazon lockers and now a growing stream I've
> seen mentioned on other lists of Amazon "stores" esp. on campuses:
>
> http://www.berkeleyside.com/2016/01/15/amazon-opens-new-store-on-uc-berkeley-campus/
>
> The campus issue seems particularly to be that students don't care
> about their US Mail any more and are happy to walk a good ways to a
> central location to pick that up, but they too want their packages
> where they live.
>
> So there's Mr. Amazon, looking to solve the problem.  The "stores"
> don't stock merchandise in the traditional way and are indeed more
> package pickup with a little customer service.  Nose of camel under
> tent?  Well, leaving aside the contracts many campuses have with the
> one or two big vendors left in the "bookstore" business but that
> Amazon could work to supplant, when would we decide that Amazon
> print-on-demand is a better solution to need-it-now than ILL? Some of
> the time?  Lots of the time?  How much camel will wind up inside the
> tent?
>
> Jim O'Donnell
> Arizona State University