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So how can an author get into bookstores?

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Having worked with traditional publishers and self - published several of her books, Massey has great advice for indie authors on independent publishing, book marketing and strategies for getting a book into bookstores, libraries and reviews.

It's getting easier and easier for successful digital - first authors to move into print and even bookstores without the help of a publisher, and the spread of e-book reading from dedicated devices such as the Kindle to tablets and smartphones (22 percent of Americans age 18 to 29 read books on their phones, according to the Pew survey) seems to offer new opportunities for those who get the format and pricing right.

For authors, getting your book into bookstores is a great way to increase sales and exposure.

The second generation platform launched in early 2013 and focuses on getting indie authors to submit their books for inclusion into the Nook bookstore.

One of the bigger industry stories to break this past weekend was Amazon's so called retreat from traditional book publishing presumably because they can't get their author's books into bookstores.

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Although Ingram makes your book available to them, there is no guarantee that stores / libraries will order your book, which is why we have several other blog posts with tips on how to sell your book to bookstores and how indie authors can get their books into libraries.

How To Get Your Self - Published Book Into Bookstores (An Alliance of Independent Authors Guide: Successful Self - Publishing Series 4)

A publisher might be able to get the book into a bookstore chain, but the day to day marketing falls on the author's shoulders.

Self - publishing services provider Blurb has launched a series of initiatives designed to help indie authors get their print books into bookstores, one of the hurdles self - published authors face in terms of developing a large audience and one of the main advantages traditionally published authors enjoy.

• Cathey Armillas — How to Pitch, Prepare and Deliver a Killer TED Talk • Bob Erdmann — Build Your Foreign Rights Revenue Stream • John Lee Dumas — Podcasting for Promotion and Profit • Pam Lontos — Publicity Strategies That Get Results • Joanna Penn — How to Make a Living from Your Writing • Joel Friedlander — Essentials for Author Websites, Blogs and Book Sales Pages • Dana Lynn Smith — How to Launch and Market Your Book • Amy Collins — Book Distribution 101: How to Get Into Bookstores and Beyond • Maria Nemeth — From Author to Coach: Build a Thriving Coaching Practice Around Your Book • Roger C. Parker — Write Three Books This Year!

Books sold into bookstores is becoming something only reserved for the brand name authors or big, breakout books that are getting a lot of buzz.

Unless the small press has a dedicated, exceptional sales team committed to marketing your book and getting you into bookstores (which some do, so check carefully), they are unlikely to be able to market any more effectively than the author can (and often less so).

These three services prove that authors know that marketing their books purely online is foolhardy, and it is critically important to get their titles into bookstores.

JKS worked to get the first book of her Liv Bergen Murder Mystery Series into the hands of booksellers across the country, resulting in the highly - prized Indie Next Pick nomination, a strong endorsement by independent bookstores across the United States, that gives an author the type of buzz in the book industry needed to create legitimacy.

When publishing POD books, many authors find that they can not afford to offer the full discount required to get the books into bookstores.

When you register for Indie Author Fringe, you also receive a free copy of Opening Up to Indie Authors, which tells you how to get your book into bookstores, literary festivals, libraries and wherever good books are found.

Generally, I don't recommend trying to get into bookstores or focusing on live events such as book signings, but it's important to address WHY I don't recommend them, since most first time authors will persist in achieving visual markers that match the «writer fantasies» they grew up with.

The bookstore has a limited number of slots available for authors and they've established a wait list for those who want to get their books into the store.

Expanded distribution is a self - publishing choice that gives you the chance to get your book into bookstores and libraries, places that are usually off limits to indie authors.

It's difficult for self - published / indie authors to get their books into bookstores.

I was surprised to find a non-fiction book from another Portland author in the bookstore, which kicked my mind into gear thinking about how I could get my own books stocked here.

Today we're exploring how indie authors can get their books into indie bookstores with Suzanne Orchard, the owner of Key West Island Books, a gem of an indie bookstore in Key West, Florida.

Today we're taking a look bookstores, which are significant sales channels for traditionally published authors, but for indies, it can be a challenge to get your books into local bookstores.

While this is changing — some literary agents are taking indie authors now, and organizations are cropping up to give self - published books physical retail opportunities — it's still darn near impossible to get an independently published book into bookstores.

When author Regina Sirois decided to self - publish her young adult literary fiction, On Little Wings, she found the process satisfying but for one aspect: the gate to getting her book into bookstores was nearly impossible to open.

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.

I'm a commercially published author, and I love my publisher for all the reasons Ms. Hocking is hoping she'll love hers... they take care of covers, editors, and getting my book into the big bookstores.

Some indie authors give up their e-rights to get the print deal — because they've always wanted to get in the bookstore or they hope the print channel will boost them even further into rockstardom.

But in the spirit of new years and resolutions, I decided to make a concerted effort to get away from the keyboard and out into the world to continue making meaningful connections with other authors, readers, and bookstore staff.

This is where authors get into trouble, believing the only way to sell their book is to get it into bookstores.

One major reason authors used to need to go with major publishing houses is that only through them could they get their books into bookstores.

Many authors publish on Lightning Source to get their books into the Ingram catalog which bookstores use to make their orders.

A self - published author needs an ebook, because they do not have a publishing house getting their book into bookstores, or otherwise marketing their book.

That first - time authors and specialty books will have an even harder time getting into bookstores.

Sandra, the author of two picture books and two chapter books, is proof that once you know the rules of the game, you can get your book into independent gift shops and bookstores.

I was pointing up the differences and I think that's a point where they differ (self - pub authors generally aren't trying to get into bookstores)-- and it struck me in Saundra's article (also Elana's later) that there was as much emphasis on pitching directly to booksellers for trad - pub authors.

The reason this can occur as much as it does is that a lot of authors are completely unfamiliar with how books typically get into a bookstore, and of the pressures on a bookshop owner and staff.

Many authors think that the only way to get their book into bookstores is through the traditional publishing gateway.

Indie booksellers don't have the buying power of the major chains, and indie authors often don't have distribution or a way to get their books into physical bookstores.

IndieReader In - Store enables authors to get their books into Edelweiss, an online catalog otherwise limited to traditional publishers, used by 37,000 industry professionals, including a majority of bookstores (including B+N!)

But it's not the only POD (Print on Demand) solution for indie authors, and it's not going to help you get into indie bookstores, local retailers, and libraries.

The problem is, authors are hungry for visibility and love the idea of joining up to get into a bookstore.

Aside from a smattering of local indie booksellers, it's nearly impossible — and if you can swing it, can be very expensive — for self - published authors to get their product into bookstores nationwide.

Many authors want to get their self - published books into physical bookstores and libraries as well as being allowed into literary organizations.