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Subject: Re: [APG] Fw: Amazon selling our membership as a journalsubscription!
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 18:44:38 +0000
I learned from our membership chairman that several libraries get our journal, "Family History Capers," via the EBSCO subscription service. It's all transparent to our organization. The subscriptions probably didn't originate from Amazon but we probably wouldn't know either way. We offer an organizational membership which includes just the publication and none of the other membership benefits. We haven't negotiated any discounts with EBSCO or Amazon to my knowledge.
The Amazon price is 240% higher than our price and, even with USPS bulk mail, we beat tAmazon's 12-16 week delivery time. This looks like a marketing channel aimed at institutional customers. We've not seen a big uptick in sales to libraries and archives yet but we can alway hope!
Jan Tripp
Ann Arbor, MI
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> Last night, I wrote:
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> > Ceil, if you're wondering whether Amazon is offering NGSQ subscriptions, I
> > haven't seen any indication of that. They regularly sell back issues of
> > the
> > _NGS Quarterly_ through their "used books" dealers.
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> I stand corrected. Gary Mokotoff found what I didn't find with my search
> terms "National Genealogical Society subscription" and "National
> Genealogical Society." It's there under "memberships."
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> What I'm curious about now is how Amazon handles "selling memberships" to an
> organization such as APG that requires one to sign a code of ethics to
> belong. Does Amazon just forward the invoice to APG, whereupon APG has to
> let the "purchaser" know there's a code to sign? What happens, insofar as
> the markup Amazon has pocketed, if a "purchaser" decides not to sign the
> code? Or, has no one yet taken up Amazon on its offer of an APG membership?
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> Kathy H., can you enlighten us?
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> Elizabeth
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> Elizabeth Shown Mills, CG, CGL, FASG
> APG Member, Tennessee
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