Proposal for an 'Amazon of Italian Libraries' to boost cultural lending

An article on Artribune proposes creating a unified web platform for all Italian libraries, allowing citizens to borrow books, DVDs, and video games from any library nationwide and have them delivered home. The author argues this would leverage existing library collections and software infrastructure, potentially increasing readership and rationalizing procurement costs. Unlike the government's planned 'Netflix of culture' platform for audiovisual content, which faces low demand and undeveloped supply, the library platform would serve an existing demand for reading and offer physical books without transposition. The platform could also enable user profiling for targeted cultural offers, online courses, and publisher market tests, creating a network for cultural distribution. The article is by Stefano Monti, partner at Monti&Taft, and appears on Artribune.