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The Coming Restructuring of Library Book Vending

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Published/Copyright: November 30, 2007
Libri
From the journal Volume 50 Issue 2

The aim of this paper is to explain why academic library book vendors around the world must change how they do business. Their survival requires it. Restructuring a business model fashioned decades ago is not a job of tinkering with this policy or that practice, nor is it simply a framework to help cope with an environment that is highly complex and changing rapidly. It requires a new business model, from the foundation upward. New business models must emphasize vendor/library partnership, goal sharing, joint development, seamless process, and cost/benefit sharing.

John Secor is Chief Executive Officer and Gary Shirk is Chief Operating Officer, YBP Library Services, Contoocook, New Hampshire, USA. E-mail: and
Published Online: 2007-11-30
Published in Print: 2000-June

© 2000 by K. G. Saur Verlag GmbH & Co KG, Federal Republic of Germany

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https://doi.org/10.1515/LIBR.2000.104

Articles in the same Issue

  1. Libri: The Early Years
  2. Libri's Golden Jubilee in a Bibliometric Mirror
  3. Publishing for the Library Community
  4. Authors and Editors of Library Science Journals: Reflections from an Asia/Pacific Context
  5. The Coming Restructuring of Library Book Vending
  6. Are We Steering Technology or Is Technology Steering Us?: Challenges and Opportunities in Internet Publishing
  7. Do We Need Alternative Forms of Publishing or Only New Technologies? Some Personal Reflections
  8. Publishing Revolution? Response and Responsibility of the Library
  9. The Ethics of the Click: Users and Digital Information in the Internet Age
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