[Publib] Advanced Reading Copies

[GraceAnne Andreassi DeCandido]

ARCs are not finished books. They have typos, there may be other
addenda, they often do not have illustrations. They are NOT the
author's finished work.
Lots of teen groups get ARCs and read them and pass them around,
but that's not the same as adding them to the collection. It does a
great disservice to the author and to the story to have ARCs
circulating.
It's not just my opinion, and others will have more to add here.
GraceAnne

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The honorable Tracy Luscombe noted on 27 Sep 2008 thusly:

As far as I know it really is okay to have these on the shelf. I attended at one day
session on "determining the value of used books" about a year ago. It says "no
sale" on them, not "no loan". I would think since they were donated rather than
sold to your library, and your library does not plan to sell them, you can let
people borrow them.

Tracy E. Luscombe
Genealogy Librarian
McKinney Public Library System
101 E. Hunt Street
McKinney, TX 75069
tluscombe at mckinneytexas.org



GraceAnne A. DeCandido
Reader Writer Reviewer ~ New York City
Part-time lecturer in children's and YA literature Rutgers SCILS/PDS
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