#Library Distribution

[author-a-holmes]

hi! did you solicit/submit/apply/request/whatever to have borrowbox buy changeling, or did they do that all on their own? if the former, how so/what's the process/how can I do that for my book (or other books I s'pose if it's making a request like with a normal library)?

Hello Anon!

I distribute Changeling through Draft2Digital, and they offer books to the various library & borrowing based distribution platforms;

These include Bibliotheca, Baker & Taylor, Hoopla, Borrowbox and Palace Market Place.

Draft2Digital also distribute to OverDrive, but I distribute to them through Kobo instead of Draft2Digital.

As far as I understand it, and someone please hop in and correct me if I'm wrong, while Draft2Digital offers the book to these distribution platforms, as they are libraries they stock the books/make them available at their own discretion?

Alternatively it's possible someone requested the book on Borrowbox, and that's when the purchase happened, I'll admit to not being 100% certain!

For more information about how Draft2Digital works with Library platforms, they have an extensive help section on their website; Draft2Digital & Library Platforms

I hope that's helpful!

[vaxxman]

@ The people who make colouring books where you just colour parts of the human body to study the anatomy: I want to kiss you on your mouth.

[miodiodavinci]

begging and pleading twitter people to stop endangering UTAU with acts of dubious legality

[the-resurrection-3d]

reading over the proofs of my jonah essay. sometimes I forget all the little psychic damage traps I have laid throughout the whole thing.

[nemesis-is-my-middle-name]

another thing i also love is when rigid systems are also intricate and arcane and very confusing so like, all the different types of magic intermingle and cross over and people keep inventing new sub-specialties mixing different ones together. there are a certain number of primal elements (space, time, light, gravity, being some) but then these develop not only into things like lightning and fire, but further into really specific ones with family trees that can get Very complicated.

you have hedgewitches which are like, double-descendants of life magic focusing in on what are usually considered really mild spells with some bonus space and time influences depending on the individual (arezu is one of these), or geomancers like lian, who use a combination of predominantly-sinister space and earth to focus in on nondisruptive traversal. then you've also got schools that are almost more of a job title than a course list. cyllene is an ex-draconid swordguard, meaning she was trained in a very eclectic combination of schools to be used dexter and channeled through her blade. laventon is a mage of the library, using magic almost as an accessory, with minor gravity/eye spells used mostly to help with lab work.

other thing i'm still thinking about is pre-hisui ingo's role. like if this is a fantasy type world there's probably nothing too similar to the subway, and if he's such a diehard light mage and that's a domain so focused on truth/ideals/healing/harming, it would be sort of weird for him to be doing public transit anyway. don't quote me on this but ingo and emmet have always sort of felt mailmancore. like they would be postal workers if they weren't doing the battle subway. so maybe it's that. maybe this world has a REALLY intense mail delivery system

[tendercoretroglodyke]

county-wide public library staff day event fit y/n?

[ofliterarynature]

Pounding on the library’s digital doors begging it to give me the next Peter Wimsey, as if I don’t already have five audiobooks checked out and need to delay a new one every other day.

[amekinoko]

are any of your songs on spotify?

No, sorry ( ^ ^ ;;) Im not 100% sure how you get songs on there tbh, probably would need a distributor like cdbaby or smth. I can try and get more of my songs on bandcamp though, if people have any specific requests!!

[frankiensteinsmonster]

Libby: the perfect opportunity to support your local library :) it's completely free to use, all you need is a library card (which might require a purchase. Mine is free but it varies from place to place, just go in and ask or you may be able to get things sorted online).

No ads, no late fees, no in-app purchases. The worst part about it is they don't have Every Single Book ever and sometimes you gotta put things on hold. Yanno, like a normal library <3

twitter: currently owned by techbro pissman

tumblr: actively removing functionality and bloating the interface with things nobody uses

discord: being retooled by ex-Meta management who don't understand the appeal of the platform

youtube: neutered by advertisers and algorithms and also tiktokification

reddit: half of the site is down due to protests about the outrageous monetization of third-party API support

facebook: my mom is on there

[faeriekit]

...I had a guy come in today asking about how to get his kids library cards. I told him. He asked me how hard it would be for them to get them, and I said that all it took was their presence and his government ID.

He told me about how nice the system was here, where it was so easy to get a card; he said that there was a beautiful public library in Beijing that was top of the line and everything, but that the only way to access it was if you were a high ranking government official or a top professor or something. Instead, our library "serves the reader." His kids will be able to take chapter books home at no cost. He'll even be able to get books in Chinese here so that his native language skills don't atrophy.

I didn't even really know what to say, so I told him how to ask us to buy books for him that we don't already have so that he can still read them at no extra cost. I don't know how to shore up what it must feel like to know that there are books out there you can't read; I've always grown up with a good library nearby. It reminded me of working in my old library, though, where families who spoke Spanish were startled to find out we took any government ID with a formal address in town— even foreign IDs— so that their kids could get access to all of our titles in all the languages we offered.

Ah. Anyway, I hope you check out a library book with this thought in mind. I checked out the first volume of YJ98 today with that thought in mind. I didn't have to pay anything. I put it on hold, and there it was.

Edit: for those who struggle with reading comprehension; no, this patron interaction is not meant to represent the status of the Chinese public library system at large nor the country of China itself; this was my response to a random Chinese immigrant dad's anecdotal concerns as he expressed them to me, because the whole breadth of concern I'm responsible for while on desk starts and ends at recommending which library services would fulfill his needs. If you think he misunderstood or was lying about the status of public libraries in China, that isn't something I'm charged to verify before writing my thoughts and feelings about the patron interactions I was exposed through throughout my day. Expecting anything else is absurd.

Edit edit: Also, your library may not actually use Libby as the distribution method for their ebook collection. The best way to find out about how to access your library's ebook collection is to call them directly.

[ambersky0319]

Yknow I'm looking at my schedule for my fall semester and like

I could just be expecting too much from myself

But

I really do think I can handle 1-2 part time jobs (or internships) on top of this

Like

M-Th I'd be on campus generally from 9am (realistically 8am bc of transit) to 4pm, but Monday/Wednesday I have literally 5 hours between my two classes - so with an Uber I could probably do a short shift somewhere those days

On Fridays I have just 1 class at 3pm

And I'm perfectly happy to work over the weekend

[romeo-the-cactus]

it just delights me that Dolly Parton is so universally adored among librarians that she gets referenced in book moving furniture both sides of the pond - Dolly Carton in the US and Trolley Parton in the UK

This popped up in my facebook feed and I’m dying. No one has voted for Wheel Gaiman and I cannot believe it. It’s the Cincinnati public library, I don’t even live there but I’m invested now.

[bloseroseone]

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[ot3]

heartbreaking news. between this, tougher crackdown on illegal tv streaming sites (kimcartoon has just permanently gone down), coming after scanlation sites, and the general moral panic around AI having people actually root for wider nets and stricter enforcement of copyright/ip law, i have a feeling the state of art and media online is going to get much much worse.

the precedent this sets for what people are allowed to do with physical print books they own is absolutely horrible, since there is nothing the Internet Archive loaned out that they didn't have a 1:1 legally acquired physical copy of before digitizing.

“This appeal presents the following question: Is it ‘fair use’ for a nonprofit organization to scan copyright-protected print books in their entirety, and distribute those digital copies online, in full, for free, subject to a one-to-one owned-to-loaned ratio between its print copies and the digital copies it makes available at any given time, all without authorization from the copyright-holding publishers or authors? Applying the relevant provisions of the Copyright Act as well as binding Supreme Court and Second Circuit precedent, we conclude the answer is no,” the decision states. [...] “This characterization confuses IA’s practices with traditional library lending of print books. IA does not perform the traditional functions of a library; it prepares derivatives of Publishers’ Works and delivers those derivatives to its users in full,” the court held. “Whether it delivers the copies on a one-to-one owned-to-loaned basis or not, IA’s recasting of the Works as digital books is not transformative.”

i hope all of the authors who went to bat for taking books away from the public don't know a moment of peace for the rest of their careers lol. i hope it was worth solidifying the publishing industry's grip on the entire sphere of literature just to get a few extra royalty pennies in your pockets.

[thehardkandy]

Yarghhhh I really want to learn to program smarter better faster stronger. There are more secrets I need to unlock

[seat-safety-switch]

When we were kids, we didn't have access to cool power tools. Every summer, when the soapbox derby race was coming, we'd break into my neighbour's garage while he was at work. Then, we'd use his drill press, lathe, table saw, all the fun tools. Over the course of a week, a race car was produced, which is more than the workshop ever made during the rest of the year.

Sure, we could have asked him if we could have borrowed his tools, but no doubt he would want to be there to supervise. And then he'd want to help. We'd never get done while we were busy indulging the suburb-tinged fantasies of someone who didn't take wood shop and chose instead to idly worship at the altar of Television Presents: The Fantasy of Bob Vila in adulthood.

One year, Old Man Garrett got a security system. Probably this was because Ted (fucking Ted) didn't clean up the sawdust that one time like we asked him to. The old man must have seen the footprint, and realized that he did not wear size-seven Nikes. Child thieves, casing his precious table saw! Now, our humble breaking-and-entering had become significantly more difficult than "reach a coat hanger under the door and pull the emergency release."

With the help of some of the high-school kids who were taking electronics class, we managed to defeat the security system. We did so using an ancient Japanese technique known as "distract Old Man Garrett while he's setting it, and then cut the wires to the panel." I think it loses something in translation, but you get the gist of it. That year's car was especially sweet.

In adulthood, I got drunk and bragged to some work buddies about our little scam. They responded in abject horror, because I was still occupying the weird hump in the middle of a normal distribution of "acceptable crimes." It was terrifying to them to see one of their own, one of the suburbanites, speak openly about largely-harmless property crimes. What if we had been hurt, they shrieked. Around the water cooler, I would become a pariah, unless I could make amends.

I did hunt down Old Man Garrett after that, still feeling the sting of rejection. He was still on the property, and he still had a beautiful collection of immaculate cabinet-making tools in the garage. I rang his doorbell and, when he answered, I told him the whole story. He laughed.

"I knew it was you dumb shits from the beginning," he bragged. "Fucking Ted -"

"Fucking Ted," I echoed, unconsciously.

"Fucking Ted left his library book on building race cars behind on the workbench that first year. You didn't let him drive, did you?"

I shook my head. "We ran the car into him if the hockey-stick brakes ever failed."

We had a good laugh about the whole thing that evening, and I returned to work with my soul cleansed. It's just a pity Ted didn't know how bad he actually was at crime, before he tried to knock over that liquor store and all.