Melissa Strayton

I have been buying children's books from Baker and Taylor for nearly four years in my current position as Director of Youth Services at the Norman Williams Public Library. As the data for this report is drawn from B&T sales, I would like to note that over the past year or so, many titles have been made available only in a reinforced, and therefore, more costly edition. Although hard covers are available generally speaking, oftentimes B&T will not offer that (at least for me, preferred) choice as often as they used to. With our state/consortia discount, reinforced editions generally cost at least $2.00 more per book than the hard-bound counterpart. Baker & Taylor is a wonderful book jobber, helpful for answering many kinds of collection-related questions. I just wonder if some of the price increase noted here may have to do with the selling of more costly editions, rather than reflect an actual rise in average book costs.

Posted : Mar 11, 2016 12:54