Consumerist
The Brooklyn Public Library may replace its DVD inventory with a Netflix subscription. According to the NY Post, talks are underway to offer free Netflix deliveries to any Brooklyn resident with a library card. The proposal makes sense when you consider the challenge of maintaining a DVD collection in fifty-eight branches.
"DVDs are very expensive to buy, and they're also very expensive to move because they're delicate," Vitali said.One possible snag. Netflix isn't aware talks are underway, and a spokesman "seemed surprised by the news." Still, this is a landmark idea we would love to see broadly implemented, even if it meant interacting with the Brooklyn post office. — CAREY GREENBERG-BERGER"Instead of buying the DVDs, we'd be outsourcing from Netflix to, in effect, create a free inventory of DVDs that would be available to our customers."
CHECK IT OUT! B'KLYN LIBRARY EYES NETFLIX [NY Post via Gothamist]
