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⌈ Secret Post #3884 ⌋

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Acquisitions Librarian Posting

[(Anonymous)]

OP, thanks for using the library. We love your support, especially since so many people seem to think that we can't give you what you can.

The thing is... we might. I work at a public library, and there are different budgetary situations. Mine has good money. We participate in OverDrive (Libby is actually the same thing, but a different name for the app). Neighboring libraries have Hoopla, and there's another that works with libraries called Freading. (The company's joke, like "free reading.") Another is Odilo. (Almost forgot that one. I don't use them, but the people are quite nice.)

The challenge in short for libraries is not necessarily buying e-books but how to distribute them to the people who want them. OverDrive is perhaps the company that reaches the most patrons, and there are indie books available through them. It has a request feature that you might want to take advantage of. In fact, often people don't know they can actually ask their libraries to get things for them, whether by Inter-Library Loan or purchase. Furthermore, it does help acquisitions librarians and their staff have certainty they are getting things their patrons actually want. It is never a goal to buy a book that doesn't check out.

So it may be possible, depending on your local library, that there are ways to get the indie books you want.


As an aside to all of this, I am an indie writer. If I found out that essential connection about how those companies pick the books they do distribute, I'd have it made for the speaking circuit for both librarians and writers. I'd own my niche for sure!