Also, many libraries do have budgets to buy books! I suggest we all
contact our local libraries and see if we can request they buy them
first. Then we can report our experiences back on this list.
Ben
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On Sep 23, 2008, at 10:46 AM, "Barbara M. Tobias" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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From: Andrew Douglas Pitonyak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, September 22, 2008 10:44 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [authors] OOoAuthors Financial Report 2007-2008
I see a lot of calls for giving to libraries and schools, but I think
that we need to be careful about which libraries and schools. My
concern
is that we could provide 100 books to 100 different libraries or
schools, and it could sit there unused.
I am not saying that we should not give the book to these places, just
that we need to consider how to get the books to where they will be
more
likely to be used.
I suppose that this is more of a question of how to choose the
school /
library / teacher, etc...
If this is known to promote usage, that is what you want.
Educational discounts might be another option. You know they want the
book because they are spending some money (for example).
--
Andrew Pitonyak
Andrew's recommendations sound reasonable to me.
Barbara Tobias
