Mechanical Turk as Collection Development Tool

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Poking around Amazon’s Mechanical Turk today, I found this “HIT” (Human Intelligence Task) available to webworkers.

The author/publisher is offering $4.00 if you request the book from your library (which I guess they hope will trigger a wave of purchases). I don’t know why it surprised me to see that this sort of thing happens…

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