Amazon.com‘s Amazon Services department unveiled an online contest in which libraries compete against each other for books and other products. Of course, when you put it that way, it sounds a little unseemly, so let’s hear how the company describes it “Wish for Lit” program:
“Applications will be accepted until February 16, 2007, and will be evaluated based on the following equally weighted criteria: Quality of the application, urgency of the need, and value the award would give to the library/community. One library in each of three categories (K-12, Academic and Public), will be selected from Amazon’s registry of Library Wish Lists by a panel of five judges selected by the American Library Association Chapter Relations Committee. Each winning library will receive a $5,000 gift certificate for Amazon.com products, as well as up to $2,000 of Amazon.com products that are on the library’s Amazon.com Wish List.”
The libraries that don’t collect the $5,000 prize might still get lucky, if Amazon customers decide to buy them the products on their wish lists.
