Written by Kyle Slagley
At Midwest Tape we pride ourselves on being able to get you
the titles your patrons want before you even have the chance to tell us you
want them, while still giving you the flexibility and control over the
purchases you need. The Customized Standing Order program is no exception to
this philosophy; indeed, it may be the epitome.
Not only do we offer the most comprehensive selection of
Standing Order plans in the industry, they come to you risk-free and you are never
under any obligation to purchase titles. Unlike competitors, when you receive a
Standing Order cart from Midwest Tape, you can choose to order all, some, or
none of the titles – the choice is entirely yours.
Now, with the addition of over 20 new Standing Order plans,
you can save even more time when you let Midwest Tape do the hard part for you!
These new plans include Parents’ Choice DVDs, Animal Planet DVDs, Rap/Hip-Hop
CDs, Religion & Spirituality Audiobooks, and many more. Let us save you
time by choosing the best titles so you can get back to doing what you wanted
to do when you became a librarian in the first place – help your patrons!
With 150 Standing Order plans, we’re here to help you make
the best selections possible and get your patrons the titles they want. For a
complete list of our available Customized Standing Order Plans, click here. Call us
today at 1-800-875-2785 to speak with one of our selectors and let us design a
Standing Order plan that’s customized just for you.
Written by Nedda Pourahmady
Did you know that Midwest Tape will be participating in this
year’s ALA conference in Anaheim? If
you’re planning on attending, make sure you stop by our brand new booth to
learn about hoopla, our new, leading library media platform! With this
cutting-edge technology, patrons have the ability to borrow a wide selection of
movies, television, music and audiobooks from public libraries and view them
directly from mobile and desktop devices!
We will also be discussing our wide range of state-of-the-art
services and formats at the conference, including Processing, Customized
Standing Order plans, and Audiobooks repackaged in our SoundSafe cases.
Here are the details for the show:
Where:
Anaheim
Convention Center, Booth #1664
Dates of Exhibits:
Friday,
June 22, 5:30pm-7:30pm
Saturday , June 23 and Sunday, June 24, 9:00am-5:00pm
Monday, June 25, 9:00am-2:00pm
For those unable to attend, stay tuned, we’ll be providing
updates daily direct from the show floor.
And as always, if you have any questions about hoopla, or any of the
products or services offered by Midwest Tape, see your sales representative or
call 1.800.875.2785
Hope to see you there!
This fall Midwest Tape partnered with Blackstone Audio, and we’re excited to announce that we now offer all of Blackstone Audio’s titles with original artwork. Additionally, we’re providing Blackstone’s standing order plans combined with our program’s customizability. Our standing order offerings exactly match that of Blackstone, further simplifying your selection process.
Enhance your library’s collection today with Midwest Tape’s Blackstone Audio Standing Order Plans:
- Top Fiction (10 titles per month)
- Top Non-Fiction (10 titles per month)
- Top Fiction & Non-Fiction Combo (10 titles per month)
Note: Receive notification of plans approximately one month before street date.
Like all our standing order plans, you’ll receive absolute flexibility:
- Plans delivered as carts via midwesttapes.com with email notification
- Easily adjust quantities and add or remove titles
- Plans automatically duplicate checked
- No contracts, minimum order requirements, or obligation to order
To sign up for Midwest Tape’s Blackstone Audio plans or learn more about all our audiobook order plans, contact Erica Messinger at 1.800.875.2785 or emessinger@midwesttapes.com.
Are you excited for Blackstone at Midwest Tape? What other standing order plans would you like to see?
This past November we introduced our First Listen Today online collection, which allows users to browse albums that are streaming daily on National Public Radio’s website. Due to the popularity of that feature and the high regard held for NPR’s music recommendations, we’ve taken that collection a step further. Midwest Tape now offers the Featured on NPR Customized Standing Order Plan, featuring music highlighted and recommend on NPR.
With a variety of programs aimed at fans of various genres, NPR has long had a reputation for being on the cutting edge of new music. The First Listen feature gives music fans the unique opportunity to listen to albums in their entirety before they are officially released, and their New Song of the Day feature exposes music fans to a new song daily. This week, NPR is showcasing songs from artists playing at the South by Southwest (SXSW) music festival.
In addition to these NPR Music staples, the Featured on NPR plan will include music titles highlighted in NPR reviews and their All Songs Considered feature. Examples of showcased music on NPR include such albums as “Big Roar” by The Joy Formidable, “All Eternals Deck” by The Mountain Goats, and The Ebene Quartet’s “Fiction.”
The Featured on NPR plan will consist of up to ten titles per month, and customers who sign up for this plan will receive carts every four weeks starting on April 6th. Like all our standing order plans, you can set your cart quantity at any amount and adjust titles and quantities any time.
Interested in signing up for the Featured on NPR or any of our music standing order plans? Contact Chris Shope at 800.875.2785 or cshope@midwesttapes.com.
What do you think of this new plan? Is there another standing order plan you’d love to see? Share your thoughts here as comments.
Midwest Tape boasts over 25 music standing order plans. Our most popular plan is the Hit Makers plan, which consists of upcoming albums expected to become major hits by popular artists. But how do we predict this? How do artists become Hit Makers? And how do they get the boot?
Welcome to the Hit Makers Club
The Hit Makers plan consists of upcoming releases from artists who have a previous album that has been certified Gold, Platinum, or Multiplatinum in the past five years by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).
Artists receive Gold certification after 500,000 record sales, Platinum after one million, and multiplatinum after two million. These honors are based on domestic—not worldwide—sales, and an artist has to achieve certification within three years of his or her album’s release. Thus, any albums released before March 2008 that just reached Gold status would not be included in our Hit Makers plan because the album is now more than three years old.
Below are some examples of current Hit Makers: - Gold: Snoop Dogg, OneRepublic, Radiohead
- Platinum: Bob Seger, Paramore, Usher
- Multiplatinum: Coldplay, Lady Gaga, Taylor Swift
Off the List! Once an artist joins the Hit Makers Club, he or she isn’t guaranteed a space forever. If an artist fails to produce another certified album within five years of their previous certified release, then that artist will get the boot from the Hit Makers plan.
Below are some examples of once certified artists no longer Hit Makers: - The Pussycat Dolls—Platinum until 01/26/2011
- Diana Krall—Gold until 02/26/2011
- Bo Bice—Gold until 02/02/2011
Insider’s Pass to the Club Interested in turning your library into a Hit Makers Club? Sign up for our Hit Makers standing order plan, and every two weeks you’ll receive a cart loaded with upcoming releases from certified Hit Makers.
You can decide whether you want to receive albums from all Gold, Platinum, and Multiplatinum artists, just Platinum and Multiplatinum, or only Multiplatinum. Additionally, you can set your cart quantity at any amount and adjust titles and quantities any time. In summary, the plan (like all of our standing order plans) is super flexible and there’s absolutely no obligation to order.
On Wednesday, June 2nd, Inside Sales Representative Lisa Smith will lead a free webinar on Utilizing Midwest Tape’s Customized Standing Order Plans. The webinar runs in the afternoon from 1:30 to 2:30 EST, and you can register for the webinar by following this link.
Click the “read more” link below to view a brief description of this webinar.
To better serve our customers, we’re now offering three new Customized Standing Order plans for audiobooks. In addition to our popular New York Times Best Selling Titles and Critics' Picks Titles plans, libraries are now able to select three new Hot New Genre Fiction plans: Romance (featuring such top selling authors as Johanna Lindsey, Julie Garwood, and Christina Dodd), Mystery (featuring such hit authors as Kate Wilhelm, Jim Stovall, and Ruth Downie), and African-American (featuring such groundbreaking authors Sonny F. Black, Sapphire, and Hassan Johnson). The Romance and Mystery plans both feature ten titles per month, while the African American plan offers five per month. All three plans contain a mixture of new, new-to-audio, and simultaneous releases.
For more information on these audiobook standing order plans or others, please reference the PDF brochure here, or contact Kate Krisjanis at 1.800.875.2785 to sign up.We developed these new plans in response to suggestions from customers like you. What new standing order programs would you like to see? Leave your comments here.
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