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R.R.Bowker and BookSurge to Offer Sales Kiosks to Libraries (#785)
Posted: 12/5/2002; 10:49 PM by Terry Frazier
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Will public libraries sell books as well as lend them? The idea of book kiosks refuses to die, but at least this time there is no attempt to actually produce the book wiith the kiosk.

book vending kiosk. R.R.Bowker and BookSurge will be introducing their library based book vending kiosk at ALA mid-winter. This will bring libraries into a retail service sector and may well leverage an important new relation between the library collections and PoD technologies. [future of the book news]

Librarians might use the Books-In-Print kiosk to purchase print copies of backlisted or OP items, but I wonder how much appeal this will have to the general public. How different is it from ordering via the Internet on a library PC? I don't see much here but I will be interested to see what reaction Jenny Levine at TSL has to this latest kiosk effort.

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