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Originally Posted by fjtorres
Now that both Ingram and Baker&Taylor distribute indie books on similar terms as the big boys (enough margin baked into the list price and willingness to accept a small percentage of returns) they have comparable reach to the smaller traditional publishers. The last hurdle is independent bookstores and libraries being open to indie titles.
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Last year I ask my librarian to purchase a couple of indie books. I ran into more walls than Pac-Man. She originally said that all they need is an ISBN and be available from B&T. A week later she came to me and said B&T didn't have them. Thinking she wasn't being honest, I called B&T myself. That was an exercise in pulling teeth. B&T does NOT deal directly with the public and the service rep wouldn't provide any info on availability or pricing except to say they stock "99%" of currently published titles. She kept referring me to my library. However, in the end I don't know if the librarian saw they were indies and didn't want to purchase them or B&T really didn't stock them.