(Dear Law Libbers, Does anyone else experience the problem I'm ranting
about?Anyone want to loan me the 2003 5th edition of Natalie Choate's Life
and Death Planning for Retirement Benefits??)
Dear Law Books Authors,
If you want me to buy your law book and add it to my public library
collection, which--if it is under $100.00 and is not going to be expensive
on updates--I may do rather then go through the hassle of an interlibrary
loan, please make every effort to sell your books on Amazon.com THROUGH
Amazon.
I can't get a credit card for my county library, and checks take weeks to
cut and send, but I have an Amazon Corporate Account and can ORDER Fast and
at Will from Amazon.
BUT I cannot use the Corporate Account on used books or OTHER Sellers, only
through "Amazon" herself.
If it's on Amazon as one of their "new" selections, it has a far better
chance of getting in my library collection when a patron asks me if we have
it. If not, the hassle factor may just kill what could have been a sale
with Law Library exposure for a title that was new to me.
I know this is a book distribution issue that authors may not have control
over, but I feel bad when I want to grab a title fast, and then I can't!
Lorelei A. Broskey, MLS
Director of Library and Information Services
Lehigh County Law Library
455 W. Hamilton St
Allentown, PA 18101-1614
610-782-3308
fax 610-820-3311
The web site for the
Court of Common Pleas of Lehigh County is:
www.lccpa.org
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