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