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Date: | Tue, 1 Mar 2022 16:05:01 -0600 |
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This is an open question from the editorial team at the Atlas of Design
(http://atlasofdesign.org). We love to sell our volume to libraries, and
we do, but maybe not as many as we'd like. What would make it simpler
for librarians to buy it? A couple possibilities have come up:
* We do not sell through wholesalers, only direct (keeps price down),
so we've never had an ISBN. Does this make sales to libraries more
difficult? For that matter, does buying directly from us (an
unregistered vendor) make this harder?
* Our web portal does not easily handle tax-exempt web sales, so we
have a kluge-y workaround where a library sends us the tax-exemption
forms, and we phone them back and the give us a credit card over the
phone while we type in the info on our phone on our sales portal's
phone app as if it's an in-person sale, then go into the desktop
version and enter the shipping address. This lets us elide over
automatic sales tax calculations.
Any suggestions you have are welcome.
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Nat Case
INCase, LLC
Minneapolis, MN USA
612-702-1333
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