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    Jennifer Anne‏ @kidsilkhaze 8 Apr 2019

    So here's the thing--I am worried that publishing is killing libraries, and that will, in turn, kill publishing.

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      2. Jennifer Anne‏ @kidsilkhaze 8 Apr 2019

        Library budgets are shrinking, or not growing at the rate of costs. A lot of these cuts are being felt in materials budgets--nudging up your holds ratio is less noticeable to users than cutting hours, and less damaging to staff morale than layoffs.

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      3. Jennifer Anne‏ @kidsilkhaze 8 Apr 2019

        (Holds ratios are how many holds we allow ourselves to have per copy of an item, once we have more holds than that, we buy more copies to meet demand. You're not imagining things--wait times probably are getting longer at your library. This is why.)

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      4. Jennifer Anne‏ @kidsilkhaze 8 Apr 2019

        At the same time, materials costs are skyrocketing because we have to buy e-materials. People want and use ebooks. If we don't have them, we lose our users. We become as obsolete as out-of-touch op-ed writers imagine us to be.

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      5. Jennifer Anne‏ @kidsilkhaze 8 Apr 2019

        (Yes, we provide way more than books, but in the end, materials are why the majority of users come in in the majority of the time, and it's our niche. A lot of our other popular services are duplicated by other places and agencies.)

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      6. Jennifer Anne‏ @kidsilkhaze 8 Apr 2019

        So, here's the thing-- e-materials are EXPENSIVE for libraries. Print materials are not. We get substantial discounts from our vendors for print materials. Often bigger than the discounts you're getting from Amazon.

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      7. Jennifer Anne‏ @kidsilkhaze 8 Apr 2019

        Ebooks aren't discounted. We're lucky if we can get them for full-list price. Even then, we usually have to buy them after a year or two, or after a certain number of checkouts.

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      8. Jennifer Anne‏ @kidsilkhaze 8 Apr 2019

        Here are cold, hard numbers: Penguin Random House usually charges $55/ copy of an ebook, and they need to be repurchased every 24 months. Simon and Schuster usually charges list price, and they need to be repurchased every 12 months

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      9. Jennifer Anne‏ @kidsilkhaze 8 Apr 2019

        HarperCollins usually charges list price and they need to repurchased every 26 checkouts. Hachette charges $80-$90 (!!!) BUT, they never need to be repurchased.

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      10. Jennifer Anne‏ @kidsilkhaze 8 Apr 2019

        Macmillan charges $60/copy and they need to be repurchased every 52 checkouts of 24 months, whichever comes first. (Assuming a standard checkout period of 3 weeks, and the book is ALWAYS checked out for 2 full years, you still only get 35 checkouts.)

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      11. Jennifer Anne‏ @kidsilkhaze 8 Apr 2019

        It's not uncommon to be able to buy 5+ copies of a Macmillan or Penguin/Random House book for the same price as 1 ebook. And a few of those 5 print copies will last long beyond the time limits imposed on the ecopies.

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      12. Jennifer Anne‏ @kidsilkhaze 8 Apr 2019

        And now we're seeing more and more exclusivity deals with certain publishers. Amazon imprints (including Audible) will not sell ecopies to libraries. If you're with Lake Union or Audible published your audio book, libraries can get it in paper or CD, but not eform.

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      13. Jennifer Anne‏ @kidsilkhaze 8 Apr 2019

        I just learned today that Scribd will now be publishing exclusives by some big name authors. Will they ever be available to libraries? Who knows.

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      14. Jennifer Anne‏ @kidsilkhaze 8 Apr 2019

        Tor has embargoed most of their titles so libraries can't buy ecopies until 4 months after publication, we can't even preorder them, which means we have to go back and look at their ebooks 6+ months after we purchased the physical copy (I tend to preorder 2-3 months in advance)

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      15. Jennifer Anne‏ @kidsilkhaze 8 Apr 2019

        AND THEN! After we waited so long, it's Macmillan pricing ($60 every 24 months). So... basically they've priced/policied themselves out of the market, except for the most blockbuster titles that we HAVE to buy because of user demand.

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      16. Jennifer Anne‏ @kidsilkhaze 8 Apr 2019

        This model of ebooks is NOT sustainable for all but the richest libraries. We lost the depth and breadth of collection that makes us special. Users stop seeing us as useful, funding gets cut more, the problem compounds.

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      17. Jennifer Anne‏ @kidsilkhaze 8 Apr 2019

        See @SuperWendy section at the end of this blog post for numbers on how popular ebooks are, and how much use they get.

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      18. Jennifer Anne‏ @kidsilkhaze 8 Apr 2019

        It's this vicious cycle--publishing charges prices we can't afford, users get turned off, our budgets shrink more due to lack of support, we can afford even less, users get turned off more, our budget shrinks again... rinse and repeat.

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      19. Jennifer Anne‏ @kidsilkhaze 8 Apr 2019

        But without libraries, publishing loses a MAJOR player and customer. They lose a lot of money. AND THEN EVERYONE HAS LOST.

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      20. Jennifer Anne‏ @kidsilkhaze 8 Apr 2019

        There HAS to be a way for libraries, authors, and publishers to work together to find better models that are sustainable to everyone's bottom line, otherwise we're all doomed.

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      21. Jennifer Anne‏ @kidsilkhaze 8 Apr 2019

        (My mother and mother-in-law were both lamenting long library wait times and assumed their libraries were out-of-touch with user desires. I can't blame them-- that's the logical assumption to make from a user's point-of-view and experience.)

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      22. Jennifer Anne‏ @kidsilkhaze 8 Apr 2019

        Publishers charge unaffordable prices, and the libraries get blamed.

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      23. Jennifer Anne‏ @kidsilkhaze 8 Apr 2019

        (Also, I forgot to link to the blog post discussed above--it's in the mentions, but posting here so it's in the thread--https://www.pinkheartsociety.com/single-post/April2019/IndustryInsights …)

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      24. Jennifer Anne‏ @kidsilkhaze 8 Apr 2019

        Hey all, my mentions are way busier than I'm used to and I know I'm missing stuff. I don't have a soundcloud, but support your library by using it and advocating for it in your community!

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      25. Jennifer Anne‏ @kidsilkhaze 8 Apr 2019

        Also, if you like library ebooks, don't feel bad! Still read them! Just be understanding when there's a long wait time or the library doesn't have the one you want.

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      26. Jennifer Anne‏ @kidsilkhaze 9 Apr 2019

        A few recurring questions in my mentions that I'll try to generally address in the next few tweets:

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      27. Jennifer Anne‏ @kidsilkhaze 9 Apr 2019

        Publishers make us rebuy ebooks because we rebuy print. Ebooks can't get lost eaten by the dog, or read so many times the pages start falling out. We rebuy when that happens in print, if demand is still there. BUT! When we rebuy in print, it is so much less expensive!

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      28. Jennifer Anne‏ @kidsilkhaze 9 Apr 2019

        Also, we do buy indie authors in small presses IF their books are available (that's sometimes a big if.) While (usually) not as egregious as some of the big guys, indie and small press titles are usually more expensive in e than print, and sometimes need to be repurchased.

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      29. Jennifer Anne‏ @kidsilkhaze 9 Apr 2019

        But, this thread is about how the big guys are making libraries slip into irrelevance. The big guys control most of the market (Because they're big!) so they also publish most of what our users are looking for. We can't stop buying the big guys and only buy small/indies.

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      30. Jennifer Anne‏ @kidsilkhaze 9 Apr 2019

        (Additionally, ebooks are much harder to browse than stacks, so users are less likely the stumble across a smaller gem like they do in the stacks. With ebooks, they're often looking for a specific title or author)

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      31. Jennifer Anne‏ @kidsilkhaze 9 Apr 2019

        When budgets get cut, we have to focus our dollars on the sure bets that we know will get a lot of use, that we know our users really want us to have, which means less money for the smaller authors and titles (which includes small press, indie, and big house midlist).

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