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Request for information on book purchasing
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- Subject: Request for information on book purchasing
- From: "Joseph J. Esposito" <espositoj@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 17:51:39 EDT
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Perhaps members of this list can assist me in answering some questions about the purchase of books by academic libraries. By "books" I mean something specific: printed books published by university presses. No ebooks, no digital aggregations, nothing from publishers outside the university press world. The question is, How are libraries purchasing these books? One press director told me that all the purchases go through library wholesalers (e.g., Baker & Taylow). I understand that some libraries are purchasing such books from Amazon, but I have not yet had a librarian confirm this. Do you have any figures on this? Of all the U. press books you purchase, what percentage comes from wholesalers, what percentage directly from the publishers, how many from Amazon or other (principally) retail vendors, etc.? A related question is, Do you get significantly different figures if you count by units (that is, copies of books) instead of dollars (the cost)? Thank you for your help with this. Joe Esposito
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