"The publisher will not provide this book because they say that it is unsuitable for library use."
Wednesday, November 07, 2007
Our custom is not required
Noreen's received a novel cancellation report from our book supplier:
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Bunny admits to being all ears, and for a desperate, obsessional need to know which book this was.
Maybe a Harry Potter? Of course, if they start selling them to libraries, that would cut into sales.
Hippity-hop!
Like most every library service in the country we bought a couple of hundred Harry Potters on the basis that that was the one title we'd know would issue at least twice.
No idea what the book was. I'll have to ask the girls. It wasn't anything obviously outrageous, just a kid's book.
"one title we'd know would issue at least twice."
Darn this pesky trans-species terminology. Cow admits to not knowing what this means, or it's significance in libraries.
Would issue twice i.e. then your copies would be first-editions and could be sold at a profit to prop up shaky library budget?
Or, would "be borrowed" or "check-out" (American lingo) at least twice, thereby in some twisted land, the purchase is justified? Are these things kept track of, for instance, if staff buys a book and no one checks it out, is that a black mark.
Enquiring Cows want to know.
Moo!
Issue = check out
Return = check in
I forget the international nature of my audience, sorry!
Ah. Cow has no 'issue' with that.
Moo!
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