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A Comparative Study of Amazon.com As a Library Book and Media Vendor

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posted on 2025-08-08, 16:29 authored by Paul Orkiszewski
Amazon.com offers convenience, Web extras, and competitive pricing to its customers. Does this mean it could be a major player in the library marketplace? To answer the hypothetical question "What if the library bought everything from Amazon?" This paper reports on an in-house study of Amazon's potential and performance as a library vendor, using order data from the Belk Library at Appalachian State University.

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    ISSN - Is published in https://portal.issn.org/resource/ISSN/0024-2527
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    DOI - Is version of https://doi.org/10.5860/lrts.49n3.204

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