Sentences with phrase «at getting the book into bookstores»

If anything the discrepancy between bookscan and your royalty statement shows the difference between how good your publisher is at getting the book into bookstores and how good it (or the bookstore) is at getting it off the shelves.

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If you're managing to get your book into brick and mortar bookstores (which will take a lot of hard work), then you'll want to leave it at 55 %.

Really good advice in this podcast, especially to do impromptu book signings at airports when traveling (using Twitter to get the word out) and going into non-traditional book stores such as airport bookstores, spas, hotels and other places that sell books and talk to the manager.

Lauren Charles [00:09:12] Yes, a sell sheet, and in fact if you can walk in with something that has your title, the cover of your book, make sure that cover looks nice, make sure that it pops, and then, and I would highly recommend to anyone who's coming in, indie press, small press, anything like that, anyone who's coming into any level bookstore, you should be able to say with absolute certainty, this is how you can order my book, this is the discount I know you can get it at, and I know it's returnable, and I can even help you.

Yes, if you really want to make a run at bookstores, go to CreateSpace for only Amazon, then move the same book file to IngramSpark to get into the Ingrams catalogs and such with better discounts.

Another tactic to getting your self - published book into bookstores is by holding a successful reading at your local bookstore.

This weekend... learn the latest tips and tricks in getting your book into bookstores and working with them... at the November AuthorU meeting... get registered.

Certainly those standardized categorical identifiers are important for bookstores and libraries, but as authors have discovered, their books aren't getting into bookstores anyway, at least not without massive amounts of legwork involved in contacting individual store owners and convincing them to stock their books.

And anyone can get their book into the order system at all the major bookstore chains.

Hence, I tend to look at things not in terms of self - publishing or vanity publishing, but it terms of whether or not a particular publisher can get you into the distribution networks so that your book will show up in the bookstores.

If your book is a beach read, get into bookstores at the beach.

Nonetheless, at least seventy percent of the books sold in the U.S. are still print, so Amazon's inability to get its titles into bookstores was a huge strike against the vision that it would be able to compete directly against general trade publishers on big fiction and nonfiction titles.

That's assuming you can get into bookstores at all: most indie shops will only take self - published books on consignment, and big chain stores won't stock them, period.

Soon enough, people stopped buying newspapers because news articles were accessible online at no charge, stopped buying records because they could get music from each other freely, and stopped walking into bookstores because they could buy books with one mouse click... [more]