Shards of Honor now on Overdrive
And another one surfaces --
https://www.overdrive.com/media/42480...
The only one of the five ebooks we placed still missing is The Warrior's Apprentice. It looks as though we might expect it to become visible in a few more days. They all went in at the same time (a month or so ago), so I have no idea why they didn't all pop up at the same time, but at least this way I get five blog posts and not just one.
As always, I'll be most interested to hear how it all came out at the other end of the hopper.
I should also add, all these titles are too old to be brought to the attention of purchasing librarians by having reviews in the professional sorts of journals librarians use for the purpose of scouting materials. The only way a library will know they are available is if someone tells them, either by an actual librarian spotting my blog posts, or by a patron requesting the title. While I have gratifyingly many librarians among my readership, I have a lot more library patrons, so my distribution is up to you, folks.
Ta, L.
(Aha. A quick check of my own local library's online catalog says they've placed a copy of The Spirit Ring. One copy, seven holds... It may be too early to see the other titles yet.)
https://www.overdrive.com/media/42480...
The only one of the five ebooks we placed still missing is The Warrior's Apprentice. It looks as though we might expect it to become visible in a few more days. They all went in at the same time (a month or so ago), so I have no idea why they didn't all pop up at the same time, but at least this way I get five blog posts and not just one.
As always, I'll be most interested to hear how it all came out at the other end of the hopper.
I should also add, all these titles are too old to be brought to the attention of purchasing librarians by having reviews in the professional sorts of journals librarians use for the purpose of scouting materials. The only way a library will know they are available is if someone tells them, either by an actual librarian spotting my blog posts, or by a patron requesting the title. While I have gratifyingly many librarians among my readership, I have a lot more library patrons, so my distribution is up to you, folks.
Ta, L.
(Aha. A quick check of my own local library's online catalog says they've placed a copy of The Spirit Ring. One copy, seven holds... It may be too early to see the other titles yet.)
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Well, my Hoopla and Overdrive seem to have all of them in the Audio version. I recommended my Overdrive to get 'Shards' in the ebook version. I have tried to read audio books, but they just don't do it for me. (except when Neil Gaiman is reading :))
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Carol wrote: "Well, my Hoopla and Overdrive seem to have all of them in the Audio version. I recommended my Overdrive to get 'Shards' in the ebook version. I have tried to read audio books, but they just don't d..."Yes, Blackstone Audiobooks has had all their titles of mine up on Overdrive for ages. And HarperCollins has my fantasies. It's my (eventually) five indie ebooks that are new.
And experimental. It is yet to be seen if they will cause money to flow toward the writer, as the phrase goes. My agent thinks not, I think in that case why do those big companies have my titles up? This venture should settle that question. (Or, as happens so often in publishing, return some maddeningly ambiguous result that gets one no forwarder.)
Ta, L.
I did request some of your audiobooks online from my library a while ago and they did buy them (I prefer the audio)..... so I do believe that when members of the library ask for something, they do try to do it.I was directly emailing my library instead of recommending on overdrive for some of them (they might not have had the recommend in overdrive at that point). I think they did 100% of the ones I emailed them about and 50% of the ones recommended in overdrive.
As an actual librarian who spotted this post, I'm glad to see the eBooks available. I'm on a purchasing committee for a consortium of 70+ libraries and I've been adding the audio versions, but people don't understand why we have audio and not eBook. They couldn't even put in a request because they weren't available.I'm also pleased to see the price is not exorbitant ($6.99), as many classic SF titles can sell for nearly 10 times that and also have a limit (number of checkouts and/or time). I'll be adding these to our next order.
I hope it does get money flowing to the author, even if you feel the need to not release newer titles to libraries on release date. I think it's definitely a way to reach new readers who're more willing to try something from the library than purchasing it themselves. If they like it, then they're more likely to buy their own copies of what they've read, or at least future titles.
