I was thinking the other day (while passing the Friends of the Library book sale building), that many people advise getting your book out there by donating it to libraries, which is problematic - library donations often just end up at book sales like that (and then sometimes in dumpsters from there); libraries have limited space and the books they ( Read more... )

Micah posts about leaving Smashwords here.

Although I have about 1/100th of the stuff on Smashwords that Micah did, I have to admit I've had similar feelings.

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This is the fifth in a series of posts by Eseme. The Intro;
Part One,
Part Two,
Part Three, aannnd
Part Four

Getting Your Self Published Book in a Library Part Five
Not Actually About Libraries...I've done a lot (fourteen pages thus far!) of talking about self published books in libraries. I'd like to shift focus a bit, to talking about ( Read more... )

This is the fifth in a series of posts by Eseme. The Intro; Part One, Part Two, Part Three

Getting Your Self Published Book in a Library Part Four
Author Events at LibrariesWelcome back. The past three posts have focused on getting your book into a library, be it a physical copy or an electronic one. It's not easy. The response will vary widely ( Read more... )

This is the fourth in a series of posts by Eseme. The Intro; Part One, Part Two

Getting Your Self Published Book in a Library Part Three
Ebooks in LibrariesSo, the first two parts of this series focused on getting a physical copy of your book into a library. It's not as easy as I'd like or as you'd like. But it is possible. The library I work at ( Read more... )

This is the third in a series of posts by Eseme. The Intro; Part One

Getting Your Self Published Book in a Library Part Two
Donating Your Book to a LibraryThanks for reading Part One, and thanks for coming back. I will warn you now, this is REALLY long. Sorry, but there is a lot of stuff here ( Read more... )

This is the second in a series of guest posts from eseme

Getting Your Self Published Book in a Library Part One
How Libraries Buy BooksIn a perfect world, it would be super easy to get your book into a library. Then all sorts of people would read it, and some of them would want to read your other books, and go out and buy them. A lot of people ( Read more... )

This is a guest post from Eseme

IntroAldersprig has invited me to do a guest post on libraries, and how the acquire books, because this is something that some self-published indie authors don't know much about. And they are curious. Great. Getting your book into a library is a super cool thing ( Read more... )