Print - on - demand or e-only titles are only accepted for consideration if the item is readily available through
standard library vendors (such as Baker & Taylor, Ingram, Overdrive, etc.).
In cooperation with customers and partners, ProQuest is currently integrating EBL and ebrary to create an unparalleled ebook solution with the most choice in access models, the greatest content selection, and integration across
many library vendors and services.
Then make sure you have your book accessible to vendors: libraries (public and school) buy for their collections from library suppliers and
library vendor catalogues.
So, if Amazon owns Brilliance, which makes audiobooks, and Amazon owns Audible, which sells downloadable audiobooks, who would be responsible for the decision to stop letting OverDrive and all
other library vendors (Ingram, Baker & Taylor, 3M) license Brilliance downloadable audiobooks to the library market?
Since the beginning of 2013, four
major library vendors have announced the launch of new or expanded streaming services that will enable patrons to view movies and television shows at their library or at home using computers, tablets, smart TVs, or any device equipped with a web browser.
On a late rainy Monday afternoon at the end of the American Library Association's Midwinter meeting, 39 leading librarians and
library vendors gathered for about 90 minutes around a horseshoe - arrangement of tables on the fourth floor of the Seattle Public Library to discuss how to create a new lending experience.
The library world was thrilled at the September 21 announcement that
library vendor OverDrive had enabled its library customers to loan the ebooks they'd licensed from OverDrive to patrons with Kindle e-readers — provided that the ebooks were in Kindle - maker Amazon's sales inventory.
I would also add the work done by the Canadian Association of
Law Libraries Vendor Liaison Committee.
Print - on - demand or e-only reference titles are only accepted for consideration if the item is readily available through
standard library vendors (such as Baker & Taylor, Ingram, Overdrive, etc.).
They will want to know which service it is available from, since they will definitely have preferences (for particular business pricing or access models; or for usage rights restrictions); and will have accounts with
some library vendors and not with others.
These library vendors will obviously also be marketing their services, and the titles they have licensed to them.
We would like to highlight special projects by
our library vendor donors that would not have been possible without their vision:
Loan Stars was inspired by US - based initiative Library Reads, and is a joint collaboration between the Canadian Urban Libraries Council (CULC), BookNet Canada, the British Columbia Library Association (BCLA) Readers» Advisory Committee, the Ontario Library Association (OLA) Readers» Advisory Committee, NetGalley,
library vendors, independent Canadian publishers, multi-national publishers, and more.
So right off the bat, if your book isn't in
a library vendor catalog, you are behind the eight ball.
The good news is that because my husband works for
a library vendor, I discovered at ALA Midwinter I can ship the ARCs I pick up back home with their booth.
So right off the bat, if your book isn't in
a library vendor catalog, you are behind the curve.
Mirela Roncevic is a professional editor, writer, content developer, and consultant to publishers, libraries, book distributors and
library vendors.
So right off the bat, if your book isn't in
a library vendor catalog, you are behind the curve ball.
Our clientele deserve no less than the same clear - eyed appraisal that we would use with
any library vendor.