I figured I could get out there and find myself an agent and Bob's - Your - Uncle, I'd land a publisher and my first book would
appear on book shelves all over the world.
Not exact matches
The first
book didn't
appear on the
shelves till 2012.
(In fact, Harlequin stressed that its authors needn't worry about Horizons
books appearing on the
shelf next to Harlequin - published
books.)
By default, 10
books appear on your main
shelf in chronological order.
That doesn't mean the author's or publisher's
books will sit
on the
shelf of most (or even a few) bricks - and - mortar bookstores in the country — just that the
book can look and
appear like any other when viewed in an industry database.
The backlist is essentially the author's previously published
books that once enjoyed
appearing on the «front
shelves» at bookstores.
By default the
book does not
appear on your main library
shelf.
After a sync, these
books will
appear on your Kobo library
shelf within the application.
Your library has a standard
shelf that has all of the
books you have purchased and bookmarks
appear on the ones you are currently reading.
When Locke struck a sweetheart distribution deal with Simon and Schuster, his
books appeared in bookstores, but few owners and shoppers knew who he was; as a result, his
books languished in the lower rent area
on shelves at the back of stores.
The
book won't be
appearing on bookstore
shelves, so October 14 is more symbolic than anything else.
Sorry, this does not mean your
book will
appear on bookstore
shelves.
Customers can usually special order
books through a retail bookstore even if the title doesn't
appear on the
shelves.
In each section, the
books / apps / magazines
appear as attractive thumbnails
on a set of white
shelves.
The true work in finding an audience, developing name recognition, and image building should happen light years before the
book ever
appears on a bookstore
shelf.
This gives us a head start to get finished
books to the media before they
appear on shelves.
In order to your cover
appearing on the virtual
shelf of the e-reader, you have to make sure that you set your image as «cover» in the metadata of your
book.
Once we ship your
book to a retailer, it can take anywhere from a few hours to a week before it
appears on their digital
shelves.
Once it completes, you will automatically be redirected to the iBooks app where your ePub file /
book will
appear on the
shelf with a «New» tag
on it.
And when a user adds a
book to one of his or her
shelves, it
appears as an update in their feed, meaning their friends
on Goodreads can see that they have added my
book!
Many lawyers were quite upset when DIY forms
books appeared on the
shelves of bookstores 25 years ago.