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I wanted to thank everyone who responded her and off-list; it was very
useful feedback. We're evaluating options and I hope Atlas of Design
will have new options available soon!
Nat Case
INCase, LLC
Minneapolis, MN USA
612-702-1333
On 3/1/2022 04:05 PM, Nat Case wrote:
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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:
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> * 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.
>
> --
> Nat Case
> INCase, LLC
> Minneapolis, MN USA
> 612-702-1333
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