Every year we offer thousands of appropriate titles on a contingency basis whereby all participating libraries can return any unwanted publication for full credit. Our experience and expertise translate to a returns rate of less than two percent. We hit the target more than 98% of the time!
No two university or research libraries are alike. We employ an exclusive approval plan profile to nail down the unique collection requirements of each library. In this era of library redefinition, we let your specifications fine-tune our selection criteria to achieve the most relevant array of publications appropriate for your institutional and historical idiosyncrasies.
We do not engage in monkey business. We respect our approval partners’ budgets and observe them carefully. We avoid cost overruns and we spread shipments of books evenly over the course of the year.
If returns are necessary, they can be sent to our US address where customs requirements are straightforward and delivery trustworthy.
Key personnel on our staff are professional librarians, many with years of experience in identifying and acquiring Mexican academic publications. They know both sides of the coin: institutional library requirements and Mexican procurement intricacies.
The privilege of partnering with many academic libraries for so many years has provided us with the tools and temperament to understand and fulfill your needs for Mexican publications better than anyone else.
Libraries love our approval plans because they trust our judgment, perseverance, integrity, and discernment.
Some of our approval plan partners include the following:
Bancroft Library
British Library
Cambridge University
Columbia University
Cornell University
Harvard University
Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut (Germany)
Linga Bibliotek (Germany)
New York Public Library
Oxford University (Great Britain)
Riverside University
Stanford University
The Library of Congress (US)
Tulane University
University of California – Los Angeles
University of California – Santa Cruz
University of Chicago
University of Iowa
University of Texas – Austin
University of Toronto (Canada)
Yale University
We list these institutions so you can ask them for their feedback about our services.
If you want to explore additional facets of approval plan benefits with Books From Mexico, please fill out the form:
Application from institutions
Request from individuals
Mexican literature blog
In this blog we share knowledge, experiences and opinions of some of the Mexican publications that we have been distributing around the world for more than 40 years.
When discussing literature throughout history, names arise within any of the existing currents. We can easily recognize all the Greeks in the creation of classical drama, Edgar Allan Poe establishing guidelines for the structure of contemporary short stories in Romanticism, Oscar Wilde inaugurating his own aestheticism movement… And the examples could go on. It would […]
Readers can encounter all kinds and varieties of reading. Books, magazines, blogs, and digital platforms are the most common and accessible formats. However, one format usually thrives in the underground world of reading: the zine. Just because it’s “under” doesn’t mean that the fanzine is something that is suddenly emerging; in fact, its origins can […]
“The Cartonera, an independent, artistic, and artisanal publisher, publishes books with covers made from cardboard collected from the streets of Cuernavaca, Morelos in Mexico. Each of our copies is a unique experience because, in addition to good literature, each of the covers is painted by an artist in our collective workshops,” is the headline on […]