Amazon also allows publishers, bookstores, and individuals to sell books on their site. By clicking on the “used and new” link under any Pathfinder title you can locate “booksfrompathfinder.” This is Pathfinder’s online link for selling around 150 titles on the Amazon site. Orders placed that way are filled within two days. In the two months since volunteers have been setting up the Amazon listings, orders have come in from soldiers and students, along with booksellers in the United States and Canada. Readers in the United Kingdom can visit Amazon.uk.com for a wide selection of Pathfinder books as well.
 

Bookstores and libraries will now find it easier to place orders with Pathfinder by using an electronic data system called Pubnet. Using Pubnet, orders can be placed with hundreds of publishers at once, simply by entering each title’s ISBN (International Standard Book Identification Number). Bookstore inventory programs can be tied directly into Pubnet for automatic reorders. This system saves bookstore and library buyers an enormous amount of time when ordering.

Pathfinder volunteers are now working with some of the large library wholesalers, who also order books from publishers through Pubnet, to add Pathfinder titles to library approval and standing order plans. These arrangements enable participating libraries to automatically receive every new Pathfinder title as it is released.
 

The spring 2006 issue of Libros, Libros, an online publication of the Chicano Studies Department of the University of Texas at El Paso, carries reviews of Our History Is Still Being Written and three other books published by Pathfinder on the Cuban Revolution. Our History was also reviewed in the March 2006 Midwest Book Review’s Internet Bookwatch.
 
 
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