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Originally Posted by astrangerhere
Some of this is also availability. My library has the highest circulation of any library in my entire state, outside of university-affiliated libraries. I just did a publisher search and my library only has about 100 BAEN titles in its entire catalog - both paper and electronic books. It is most of the authors you would expect - David Weber, Anne McCaffrey, John Ringo and Eric Flint.
But for me, if my library doesn't have something, I am not going to go out of my way to find it. They have thousands of books that I do want to read. If a publisher is not popular enough for them to support in a big way, this may be more than just popularity contests at this point.
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Or maybe it's because academic/literary types are bigots towards books that don't match their narrow niche view. I saw that in SF back in the 70's. The only SF that ever got mentioned by the academics and literary types was a very small subset of authors lead by Bradbury. Occasionally, you would get them to admit there was some guy named Asimov writing, but they had never read any of his stuff.