I think I was 15 minutes ahead of you, but then I just read a Vanity Fair profile on Groupon.
I think we could try to set something up, however the issue with current & older titles might be libraries who bought them at full price getting upset, but i guess you can't do much about that. I do think trying this with new releases would be a way to start. On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 2:03 PM, scott spicer <[email protected]> wrote: > Apologies for the spamming, but this got buried in the thread on post. I > am interested to hear folks take on this, and it appears Jessica reached a > similar conclusion at the same time: > > Just a thought experiment here... > > I understand that smaller distributors do not want to devalue their > collections by cherry picking individual titles for substantially lowered > costs and am sensitive to Jessica's claim that lowering prices would not > necessarily make up for lost sales in terms of volume. You gotta give us > video librarians a fighting chance. Challenging times call for creative > solutions. So I propose we crowd source this thing...in the spirit of > Elizabeth Stanley, we need a Groupon/Social Living service for > Indies/educational media. > > Picture it: for one day (or week) only, The Strange Disappearance of Bees > is > $200 or The Big Sellout is $100 (PPR negotiated separately if needed). > Let's say price predicated on collective volume sales of at least 50 units, > offer ends at 500 takers. Only 5 titles can go up at any given point, and > only once a year. Open to all filmmakers/distributors targeting the > academic market (with a small percentage of sales recouped for promotion > and > maintenance). > > Thoughts? > > -Scott > > -- > Scott Spicer > Media Outreach and Learning Spaces Librarian > University of Minnesota Libraries - Twin Cities > 341 Walter Library > [email protected] 612.626.0629 > Media Services: lib.umn.edu/media > SMART Learning Commons: smart.umn.edu > > > VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues > relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, > preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and > related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective > working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication > between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and > distributors. > > -- Jessica Rosner Media Consultant 224-545-3897 (cell) 212-627-1785 (land line) [email protected]
VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and distributors.
