What's Your Experience with Library Distribution?

[ahpellett]

Now that SW distributes to libraries, I'm curious what SWers experience is with that distribution category.

I 've had zero distributed to libraries for my novel (which has a price - I've experimented with two prices), while in less than 24 hours I've had five distributed for a free short story (the latter is topical so that may have something to do with its relative "popularity").

I'd like to know what general observations you may have had as to what works and what does not for the library category. Am interested in pricing, length, topic, etc.

[Nathaniel Phillips]

I haven't had any distribution via the Library Direct channel. I contacted my local library system to see if I could donate my books. They told me that they do not have their own content server and that they contract out all of their ebook delivery to a vendor. Whatever that vendor offers is what they have. I suspect that a lot of libraries do something similar rather than buying and hosting their own content.

[Ted]

Shipping to Library Direct is pending, so no ebooks delivered, according to my Dashboard.

Same situation with Page Foundary; pending.

I've had sales on Blio. They are aware of some bugs in their database and content servers, and are working on finding/fixing bugs.