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Originally Posted by Fbone
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.
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I've seen anti-indie blog rants from librarians that make Shatzkin look like an indiepub mouthpiece. Lots of bile.
Edit: Which I just found out is going to gush once this makes the rounds:
http://www.theguardian.com/books/201...8m-titles-300m
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Self-published books' share of the UK market grew by 79% in 2013, with 18m self-published books bought by UK readers last year, according to new statistics.
With print sales falling by 10% last year, and book purchasing as a whole down 4%, ebook sales continue to grow, according to Nielsen's comprehensive tracking of book purchases, up 20% in the UK in 2013, with 80m ebooks bought by UK consumers, to a value of £300m. But it is the DIY market which is showing the most eye-watering growth, up 79% to 18m self-published titles purchased, worth £59m, according to the statistics released on Friday.
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