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: > > 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. > > -- > Nat Case > INCase, LLC > Minneapolis, MN USA > 612-702-1333