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