{"id":2228,"date":"2007-03-23T07:54:56","date_gmt":"2007-03-23T15:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/03\/april_fools_day_is_a_week_from_this_sunday_--_and_dont_think_i_didnt_check_that.html"},"modified":"2007-03-23T07:54:56","modified_gmt":"2007-03-23T15:54:56","slug":"april_fools_day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/03\/april_fools_day.html","title":{"rendered":"April Fool’s Day Is A Week From This Sunday — And Don’t Think I Didn’t Check That"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now if I could only remember what I did with my library card<\/a>:<\/p>\n

In what would be a first in the United States, the Brooklyn Public Library hopes to team up with Netflix to deliver DVDs and videos to anyone in the borough with a library card, The Post has learned.<\/p>\n

The price would be unbeatable — free.<\/p>\n

The disclosure was made by John Vitali, the library’s chief fiscal officer, following an announcement at Brooklyn Borough Hall that Dionne Mack-Harvin had been named executive director of the borough’s library system.<\/p>\n

. . .<\/p>\n

“What we want to do is work with Netflix and really get that inventory together, really use Netflix as the delivery mechanism,” Vitali said.<\/p>\n

“We’re getting some good vibrations back. Nothing formal has been settled. What’s really exciting is — it’s my understanding — really the first of its kind, a model for that kind of corporate partnership.”<\/p>\n

Netflix has an inventory of 75,000 movies.<\/p>\n

Netflix spokesman Steve Swasey said he knew nothing about a possible partnership with the library and seemed surprised by the news<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Vitali said that if the partnership works out, the library and the movie-delivery service would develop a separate list. But it would include popular films.<\/p>\n

“DVDs are very expensive to buy, and they’re also very expensive to move because they’re delicate,” Vitali said.<\/p>\n

“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.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

[Emphasis added but let’s skip the details, shall we?]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now if I could only remember what I did with my library card: In what would be a first in the United States, the Brooklyn Public Library hopes to team up with Netflix to deliver DVDs and videos to anyone in the borough with a library card, The Post has learned. The price would be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,29,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brooklyn","category-huzzah","category-what_will_they_think_of_next"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}