From:
Norman Watts <Norman_Watts@zzzzzzz>
Date:
Wed, 23 Mar 2005 17:30:29 -0500
Subject:
tool catalogs
I've spent some useful and some rather useless time with tool catalogs
recently. Much description is hype and promotion. That is useless.
These catalogs would be infinitely more useful to the prospective
buyer, and in the end the dealers and manufacturers, if they took a
page from some of the catalogs published by companies selling to the
biotech research community (the one I happen to be familiar with).
There are many examples but Invitrogen, Molecular Probes, Pharmacia,
Worthington and especially Pierce are examples that see constant use on
my lab bench. These catalogs are amazing sources of information, with
the end result that users often gravitate to products that they know
more about, and can imagine more and novel uses for. In the end it
generates money for the those willing to invest in publishing a better
catalog. This situation is not limited to biotech research. As the
writer said in an article on brazing, recently pulled up by Bill
Knight, "the better informed our customers are, the better for us".
Norman Watts, Ph. D.
National Institutes of Health
50 South Drive, Rm. 1509
Bethesda, MD 20892-8025
Phone: (301) 402-3418
Fax: (301) 480-7629
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