PDA Questionnaire for Publishers
 I am working with Terry Ehling and Kizer Walker  on a project to investigate the potential impact of libraries’ patron-driven acquisitions (PDA) plans on book publishers, university presses in particular.  This questionnaire is part of that project.  Terry is Associate Director, Project Muse, at the Johns Hopkins University Press. Kizer is Director of Collection Development, Cornell University Library. The Principal Investigator for the project is Kathleen Keane, Director of the Johns Hopkins University Press. This project has been made possible with the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.  I am myself an independent management consultant who works primarily with digital publishing, with an emphasis on scholarly publishing.  Some more background on me is here:  http://j.mp/xkiBXv.

PDA is an evolving practice in the library world.  This questionnaire is designed to solicit information from publishers on PDA for books.  (An analogous questionnaire is being distributed to librarians.)  The PDA project is described at greater length at the Scholarly Kitchen: http://j.mp/qQdaDU.  In some cases I will ask to follow up with publishers by phone or email for additional information.

The information we gather through this survey instrument will be shared with my co-investigators and their colleagues at Cornell and Johns Hopkins.  We will be analyzing the data and will report on it in the aggregate in our final report.

If you have any questions about this project, please contact me at espositoj@gmail.com or (831) 425-1143.
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1.  Please provide your name. *
2.  Please provide your title. *
3.  Please provide the name of your organization. *
4.  Your email address? *
5.  Your phone number?
6.  Roughly, how many NEW books do you publish every year?
7.  Roughly, how many books do you have available (your total catalogue), including print, POD, and digital books?   A book is considered available when someone can purchase it.
8.  Do you any relationships with ebook companies (e.g., Ebrary, NetLibrary, Project Muse) that sell ebook aggregations to libraries?  If so, name them all.
9.  Separately from the companies cited in #8 above, do you work with any intermediaries or wholesalers to get individual copies of your books, whether print or digital, into libraries? If so, name them.
10.  What percentage of your sales (expressed in dollars) goes to libraries?  You may want to break this down by type.  For example, you may want to report one set of figures for scholarly and reference titles, and another set for trade books.
11.  How do you measure your library sales?   Do you reach libraries through Coutts?  YBP?  How do you know when your books ultimately wind up in libraries?  
You may write as detailed an answer as you wish.
12.  Do you sell ebooks as individual titles through Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Google Ebooks, and Apple's iBookstore?  Others?  You may want to distinguish between scholarly and reference titles on one hand and trade books on the other.
13.  Are you familiar with Patron-Driven Acquisitions (also known as Demand-driven Acquisitions)?
14.  If your press's titles are involved with PDA programs, which vendors are you working with?
15.  Have you made any changes to your procedures to accommodate PDA?   If so, please provide specific examples.
16.  What impact, if any, has PDA had on your sales?
17.  Do you anticipate that PDA will have an impact on sales in the future?
18.  Do you plan to take any steps in order to increase your sales to libraries?  If so, how will PDA programs fit into this?
19.  Do you or any of your colleagues routinely look at library catalogues to see how your books are listed there?
20.  How would you like to see PDA evolve in the future?
21.   Do you see library sales becoming a bigger or smaller portion of your overall sales in the years ahead?
22.  If you could change one thing about your press's relationship with libraries, what would that be?
23.  What questions did we fail to ask?  What would you most like us to know about PDA, ebooks, and library sales?  You may write as much as you like.
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