ACQNET: Books on Tape - Classic titles

From: Eleanor Cook <cookei_at_appstate.edu> Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 14:18:22 -0500 To: acqnet-l_at_listproc.appstate.edu

Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 15:49:56 -0500
From: Steve McGuirl (NY Society Library) <acquisitions_at_nysoclib.org>
Subject:  Books on Tape - Classic titles

Hello-  <>

Has anyone else out there run into the following problem?: <>When Books 
On Tape was purchased
by Random House, most of the classic titles went, predictably enough, 
immediately out of print.
Now, we were just told, it is impossible to even obtain replacement
cassettes for these sets! So, now if a cassette gets mangled or lost, 
the whole set must be discarded?   <>

Sets by authors like Trollope and Dickens are extremely popular with our 
members and some are
12-18 cassettes, thus very expensive. I have 5 or 6 sets in my office 
requiring cassette replacements.
Needless to say, I'd rather not purchase the same title from a different 
publisher (with a different reader)
if it can be avoided by just replacing the cassette. I know Amazon may 
have a few of these sets
lying around, and they could be purchased as a 'back up', but what if 
the same tape breaks or gets
lost again? Then, we have two useless sets laying around.   <>

Any suggestions would be most appreciated.  <>

Thank you, <>

Steven McGuirl
New York Society Library
Head of Acquisitions
53 East 79th Street
New York, NY 10021

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