Amanda French writes “ProQuest, the provider of Dissertation Abstracts, announced (rather quietly) a partnership with Amazon to sell dissertations through Amazon.com. Dissertations were briefly available through Amazon.com (roughly from December 2005 to February 2006), but they have since disappeared. Dissertations that cost $45 to order from ProQuest were available as downloadable PDFs for $55 through Amazon. Only the astute librarians at Case Western Reserve University noticed, evidently.
The sudden and silent disappearance of dissertations from Amazon might or might not be due to ProQuest’s new legal and financial trouble. ProQuest announced February 8th or 9th that it had discovered accounting irregularities in its Information and Learning division. Several lawsuits on behalf of shareholders have followed.”
whoa- I blogged it in December!/ proquestpress-release-dissertations.html
http://christinaslibraryrant.blogspot.com/2005/12
Or do you mean the disappearance? Which I hadn’t noted?
Re:whoa- I blogged it in December!
Whoops, hadn’t noticed! Sorry. Glad there are even more astute librarians out there than I thought.
Amanda