[Publib] Advance[d] Reading Copies

Mon Sep 29 13:05:28 EDT 2008

What about “releasing them into the wild” with something like Book
Crossings?  http://www.bookcrossing.com/

Jacque Gage

Barton County Library

300 W. 10th

Lamar, MO 64759

417-682-5355 - voice

417-682-3206 - fax

jgage at bartoncountylibrary.com

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From: publib-bounces at webjunction.org [mailto:publib-bounces at webjunction.org]
On Behalf Of Logan Abbitt
Sent: Monday, September 29, 2008 11:28 AM
To: publib at webjunction.org
Subject: RE: [Publib] Advance[d] Reading Copies

I understand where you're coming from on this. It just seems a horrid waste
to throw them in the recycle bin. 

Thanks, 

Logan Abbitt 

Information Services Librarian

Cumberland County Public Library & Information Center 

300 Maiden Lane Fayetteville, NC 28301-5000 

Phone: 910.483.7727 Ext. 226 Fax: 910.486.6661 

 <mailto:labbitt at cumberland.lib.nc.us> labbitt at cumberland.lib.nc.us

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From: publib-bounces at webjunction.org on behalf of Victoria Kemp
Sent: Mon 9/29/2008 11:51 AM
To: publib at webjunction.org
Subject: RE: [Publib] Advance[d] Reading Copies

As a book seller in my former life, Lesley is absolutely correct. It is
cheating the author to add these books to your collection. And, as a further
footnote, when they say “don’t sell this,” please honor the publisher and
author’s instructions and do not put them in your library’s book sale. If
you think there is a dearth of mid-list authors now, you are directly
contributing to this dearth by adding these books to your collection and not
letting the publishers know (by your book purchase) you think mid-list book
are just as important as books that are as well marketed as James Patterson,
Patricia Cornwell and Danielle Steel.   

FWIW   

Viccy Kemp      

The opinions are my own; the library wouldn’t want ‘em!

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From: publib-bounces at webjunction.org [mailto:publib-bounces at webjunction.org]
On Behalf Of Knieriem, Lesley
Sent: Monday, September 29, 2008 10:43 AM
To: publib at webjunction.org
Subject: RE: [Publib] Advance[d] Reading Copies

I receive dozens of fiction ARCs every year, and never in my memory have
they been “copies of the first edition.”  They are unedited, rife with
typos, missing materials, and poorly bound.  Adding them to the collection
would be deceiving your patrons and stealing from the author and publisher
of the works.  It is the equivalent of paying for a ticket to see a movie at
your local theatre, and instead of being shown the finished product, only
being allowed to see the uncut, unedited compiliation of daily rushes.
Wouldn’t you feel cheated?  And if the book is worthy of being added to your
collection, don’t the author and publisher deserve fair recompense?

(And no book added to the collection is really “free” – generally speaking,
the cost of processing, handling, cataloging, and shelving even a donated
item is equivalent to the discounted purchase price of a properly acquired
new book.  We owe it to our taxpayers to make sure this money is spent on
the best possible materials.)

As for what I do with all those ARCs – why, I use them for the intended
purpose.  After I finish marking them up for review, I pass them along to
others – patrons and librarians – for the purpose of review and creating
advance buzz.  If no one is interested (a useful bit of data in itself) I
throw them away.

Lesley Knieriem

Rogers Public Library

Rogers AR

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From: Judith Turner [mailto:turnermalibmba at yahoo.com] 
Sent: Friday, September 26, 2008 9:30 PM
To: publib at webjunction.org
Subject: RE: [Publib] Advance[d] Reading Copies

My question is why don't you add advance reading copies (aka review copies)
to the library collection, assuming the book is one you would acquire
anyway?  Nowadays, they are copies of the first edition that are released
early for publicity purposes so it's not a cataloging problem, except
possibly in science-fiction where collectors consider them as the real first
editions.  

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