Comments on: Buying Books Online is Crucial for My Small Library http://lib.surruralist.net/2007/03/30/buying-books-online-is-crucial-for-my-small-library/ Libraries, Technology, No Cell Service Wed, 07 Jan 2009 04:21:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Kate http://lib.surruralist.net/2007/03/30/buying-books-online-is-crucial-for-my-small-library/#comment-2308 Kate Mon, 02 Apr 2007 16:44:15 +0000 http://lib.surruralist.net/2007/03/30/buying-books-online-is-crucial-for-my-small-library/#comment-2308 I was turned off on the big jobbers when I realized that the deep discounts they were tempting me with were restricted to an extremely select list of current bestseller types. I wound up paying full price for most of the titles I wanted. Now I buy mostly through my local bookstore, which gives us twenty percent off across the board. I would be interested to know how people persuade their financial officers to allow them to have library credit cards. It is the only thing that makes sense in some cases, but a series of business managers here have only howled with despair and invoked the Auditors when I pleaded for one. I was turned off on the big jobbers when I realized that the deep discounts they were tempting me with were restricted to an extremely select list of current bestseller types. I wound up paying full price for most of the titles I wanted. Now I buy mostly through my local bookstore, which gives us twenty percent off across the board.

I would be interested to know how people persuade their financial officers to allow them to have library credit cards. It is the only thing that makes sense in some cases, but a series of business managers here have only howled with despair and invoked the Auditors when I pleaded for one.

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