• Can be sold
at book fairs etc. • Bookstore sales possible.
Not exact matches
She can always order copies and set them up
at book fairs, bookstores
etc..
I believe that an organization like this could be of great benefit to self - publishers, if it brings self - published authors together to accomplish as a group what we can't accomplish on our own: group discounts, selling our
books in venues that normally don't accept a one - author publisher or require 50 + titles in the publisher's catalogue, having a presence
at fairs and conferences,
etc..
Getting my own cheap copies is a deal breaker for me, because I do a lot of sales
at craft
fairs,
etc. and make good money on those
books.
However, looking
at the numbers objectively, it's hard to defend that an author making $ 0.11 a copy on a
book is a
fair wage when there's a reasonable expectation that the publisher will sell several hundred thousand copies (and so easily recoup their initial investment of advance, editing, cover art, formatting,
etc..)
There are several avenues towards getting your
book onto the show floor
at an international
book fair, starting of course with purchasing a stand and heading over to Frankfurt, Beijing, Bologna,
etc..
If that's the aim (plus invites to
book openings, TV chat shows, lectures
at art colleges
etc.) then
fair enough.