How to Showcase Your Book to Librarians

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“Putting up walls – like some indies are familiar with – and falsifying “best-seller” lists to limit consumer access to certain titles is simply wrong” writes eBooksareForever.  Expanding your readership is the program for two curated collections that make it simple to reach new readers and expand your fan base to library patrons  nationwide:

  • Library Journal’s curated collections, SELF-e Select (promotion to libraries)
  • eBooksAreForever (promotion and selling to libraries)

eBooksAreForever
makes it fast, easy, and lucrative for libraries to acquire and permanently own ebooks.
The purpose of eBooksAreForever is to offer a large, curated collection of ebooks to every library in North America, at a fair and sustainable price, where the library owns the ebook forever and authors and publishers make great, ongoing royalties. To find all the FAQ’s and answers see Support for Authors.

Having a curated collection of popular indie titles at sustainable pricing models, all of which can be purchased with minimal effort, allows libraries to tap into ebook content that they’ve been unable to access until now.  The ebooks offered by eBooksAreForever (EAF) are ones that consumers are purchasing every day, in great numbers, and offering them to library patrons is now simple and affordable. Libraries can be a great place to find new readers and grow your fan base.

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SELF-e Select – a Showcase for Your Books
SELF-e is a marketing and discovery service aimed at helping authors build an audience of readers.
The first of Library Journal’s curated collections, SELF-e Select, has been released this summer, just in time for the American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference in June in San Francisco. The SELF-e Select collections are comprised of titles submitted nationally, then evaluated and selected by Library Journal to be showcased at participating libraries nationwide. In addition to appearing in the curated collections, the selected titles will appear in their respective states’ independent author, “indie,” collections as well. State “indie” collections are now activated and available in Ohio, California, New York, Illinois and Arizona, with several more planned to release over the coming months.
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Library Journal’s SELF-e Select
SELF-e, created by Library Journal in collaboration with BiblioBoard®, offers self-published and independent authors the opportunity to upload their ebooks, expand their readership, and reach new audiences through public libraries.

“The Library Journal curated collections contain the ‘best-of-the-best’ SELF-e submission and give authors the opportunity to reach new readers across the entire nation,” says Mitchell Davis, Chief Business Officer of BiblioLabs.  “Through the SELF-e Service and content modules, public libraries can now clearly demonstrate the value of engaging their local writing communities, while authors benefit from access to a voracious reading channel: library patrons.”

  • While all submissions must be in English, authors outside the United States are welcome to participate.
  • You must have the e-rights to your book.
  • SELF-e will not pay you a royalty when your ebook is checked out by a library patron. The purpose is to introduce you and your book to readers (comparable with book giveaways)
  • It costs you nothing to get into this arena for discovery but it also will not pay you in royalties, so it is very important you add lots of information where else library patrons can find you other books or meet you on your website / social media, at the end of your books. See also a former blog post: How Smart Authors Get Their Books into Libraries

Melinda Clayton wrote a detailed report about her own experiences with the SELF-e program:
“While SELF-e doesn’t accept every submission for inclusion in their national library database, they do offer the option of registering for state modules. Not every state is an active participant in SELF-e, at least not yet. But by selecting to have your book included in the state module, you reserve a spot for inclusion once that state becomes an active participant, even if your book wasn’t selected for inclusion in the national database. Active states can be seen here:  http://self-e.libraryjournal.com/where/“.  Read more in her Library Journal article at IndiesUnlimited.

For more information visit Self-e.libraryjournal.  To see a preview of the already selected books, check out the bookshelf on the SELF-e GoodReads page.
Porter Anderson wrote a very detailed – insider – article about this book promotion program.
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Read also an interview by Melissa Bowersock with CEO August Wainwright, about the eBooksAreForever program, where he explains in detail about their review program for inclusion into the library market.

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