Pricing eBooks for Library Distribution

[anamardoll]

I don't support making libraries pay more unless we're also going to simultaneously send more money to our libraries.

Possibly not the best thread to ask on, but does anyone the best way to donate one's own eBook to a library? (I mean, a book one wrote, not bought.)

[luqmaninbmore]

Originally Posted by Ron.

I like that, wish they had that in the US.

I certainly don't. Library budgets are tight enough as it is. It would also tend to wear away the First Sale doctrine.

[Skip Wyona]

Originally Posted by anamardoll

I don't support making libraries pay more unless we're also going to simultaneously send more money to our libraries.

I wish that there was a solution. e-books in small city public libraries are hardly worth the effort when I compare the number of titles listed here for large city libraries to my local library. And I won't even mention the abysmal budgets of school libraries.

In the past libraries have paid large fees for circulation and use rights for some items or have joined with larger better funded state-wide and state funded consortiums, but here again we are confronted with the lack of funding support.