Direct Requests from Information Wants To Be Free

Sunday, 9 March, 2008 · Leave a Comment

2.0 and don’t even know it | Information Wants To Be Free

Great post from Meredith over at Information Wants To Be Free about an innovative idea for getting books posted direct from Amazon to distance students for their requests. It’s worth reading the post and the comments as well as it seems the idea isn’t unique. An innovative way to deal with the problem of delivering information to distance students and I’d be interested to know how many other places are doing something similar.

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