Draft2Digital just announced that they are now offering Baker & Taylor as a part of their growing library distribution strategy.

This is from their announcement:  Baker & Taylor is the world’s largest distributor of digital and print books worldwide, to thousands of libraries, publishers, and retailers. As a library distribution partner, Baker & Taylor will further enhance D2D’s reach into public libraries around the world. This improves indie author reach to the estimated 1.5 billion patrons who visit libraries each year!

You guys KNOW I love the library market and you may have heard me talk about Baker & Taylor.  B&T is the largest library distributor in the world. More libraries buy from B&T than any other distributor.

But getting listed by B&T has been growingly difficult. Their small press department is choosing fewer and fewer indie authors to work with. The links to apply to the AXIS360 program were moved and applications to sell ebooks have gone in-house.

But now everything has changed. You can get your ebook distributed to B&T.

While Overdrive has a bigger distribution model for ebooks, we will now have a way to list books in B&T’s system and develop a sales history with them. How cool would it be to sell ebooks into a few hundred libraries via B&T? Then you could use that to work to get your print book carried!

Also from their announcement:

OPT-IN IS EASY
The next time you log into your Draft2Digital account you’ll be prompted to add Baker & Taylor library distribution. You can opt all of your books in at once, or wait to add specific books from you’re My Books page.

Here is the full announcement:

http://draft2digital.activehosted.com/index.php?action=social&chash=f0935e4cd5920aa6c7c996a5ee53a70f.420&s=8301c2fc805d861006a052046556de3d