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