I've also purchased occasional personal copies of good video titles from
Amazon.com, but not recommended them for public library purchase because they
had generic Amazon covers with no descriptive information. Example: A WOMAN'S
TALE, directed by Paul Cox. There is absolutely no information on the cardboard
cover which describes the content. Unless a potential viewer already knows
about the film or some of the people associated with it, there is no reason to
check it out.
Pat Shufeldt
Greenville, SC
pashuf@charter.net
Mike Tribby wrote:
> Dear CW;
>
> In recent weeks our crack team of sales professionals have told us that
> libraries are no longer eager to purchase A&E videos. They attribute this
> to the lack of color covers. Apparently their contention is that generic
> covers inhibit sales regardless of content. This seems strange to me because
> when I peruse local public library collections, as I often do, I see lots of
> A&E videos, though sadly not all of them were purchased from QBI. Is our
> sales staff's shared perception correct? How do video librarians (not just
> in the public libraries) feel about this? Strangely (to me anyway) we sell
> an awful lot of Showtime "family" selections, which seem to me to resemble
> live-action Disney product without the gritty reality the Mouseketeer crowd
> usually provides.
>
> Mike Tribby
> Senior Cataloger
> Quality Books Inc.
> The Best of America's Independent Presses
>
> mailto:mike.tribby@quality-books.com
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