ACQNET: RE - Setting up Amazon Corp. Account

From: ELEANOR COOK <COOKEI_at_appstate.edu> Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2002 14:54:09 -0400 (EDT) To: acqnet-l_at_listproc.appstate.edu

Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 14:00:52 -0500
From: Kent Mulliner (Ohio Univ.) <mulliner_at_ohio.edu>
Subject: Re: ACQNET: RE - Setting up Amazon Corp. Account 

I too started early in trying to establish a corporate account;
however, my experience was the opposite.  This largely arose
because, as a state institution, we could not accept the
click contract accepting Utah law and jurisdiction.  After
e-mail and phone exchanges, Amazon said that they understood
that other states could not be subject to the laws of other
states but that was immaterial.  They could/would not change
the contract.

         This raises questions about why they pretend to
want library accounts from the public sector.  With alternatives,
we don't miss having a corporate account.

K. Mulliner       
Collection Development Coordinator
Ohio University Libraries               Phone: 740-593-2707
Athens, OH 45701-2978, USA              FAX:    740-593-2708
mulliner_at_ohio.edu