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How do libraries get their books?

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We can talk sales all the live-long day, but dollars-and-cents aren't the only benefit an author sees from his or her book being stocked at the local book ... Except, libraries do not get books for free. They pay for books. And those sales can be incredibly important to authors. read more

This was an occasion for great joy in the office (we had champagne, or perhaps that was for the other people in our parent company who won a Newbery Honor and a Caldecott Honor) and at the same time we got a question here on our blog about how libraries get books. So! Here is how our books get into libraries. read more

Except, libraries do not get books for free. They pay for books true enough, but so does the first pirate - the one who digitizes their media and uploads it for others to use. The difference is that the book you borrow belongs to the library, the copied book you copy, which gets into copyright law, which is a whole other convoluted mess. read more

The ways the library get the books varies from one library to other. Some library get the books from the book supplier or the vendor.Some libraries purchase the book from online sites and then keep those books in their library.Some library staff and other people also donate their old and unused books to the library. read more

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