Sentences with phrase «author get their books into your store»

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Bookstores could be early adopters and natural locations for these machines — but most bookstores would need help to take the risk out of such and investment — and ongoing support in the form of a galvanized local author community to get people into the habit of ordering books through the new in - store technology.

One thing that a traditional publisher (and I am one) will do is to get their author's books into book stores.

This allows new authors to get into self publishing without having to spend a large amount of money or needing to store and ship their books themselves.

Making sure an author's book gets into stores is also a matter of marrying the book to the right publisher in the first place.

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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.

As an indie author whose micro-publisher is in bed with Amazon, I can't get my books into such stores, which refuse on principle because the telltale barcode and «printed in» on the last verso page of my books proves they were printed by Amazon's CreateSpace — despite an independent imprint with its own ISBNs.

Authors always think they don't get any marketing help b / c they don't see ads, or commercials, but the act of getting the book into stores takes money.

Traditionally, one of the biggest values publishers have offered authors is the ability to get their books into stores.

«One of the biggest challenges indie authors face is getting their books into brick & mortar stores,» explains Amy Edelman, founder of IndieReader.

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.

We actually don't recommend that a self - publishing / independent author push to get their book into «chain» book stores right away.

So, and this is just my first thought, I wonder how much of that feedback loop indie authors are losing by not being able to get a single copy of a book into a brick store.

Q. Is there still advertising opportunities for Indie authors who want to pitch paperback books but can't get any into traditional retail stores?

If you choose to publish through a different service, such as IngramSpark, your chances of getting a book into physical stores might be slightly better, but now it'll have to jump through hoops on Amazon, which is still the biggest bookseller and generates the highest royalties income of all other retailers for most authors.

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.

Thanks for your description of what happens when an author is rejected by Kindle Singles, and explaining the distinction between that bruising experience and getting automatically into the Kindles Book Store with the same piece of writing.

They've made it almost impossible to get indie books into the stores or to hold author events there.

The second author — She struggled to even get her book into stores.

Today is the last day to catch the replay of our Free Author Training «How to Get Your Books Into Stores Even If You're Self - Published».

But a call to boycott Amazon is unavoidably a call to boycott authors who can't get their books into other stores.

If you're a new author — and a self - published author at that, you are very likely running into the questions of how much to charge for your book, how much money you will get (a impolite way to say royalties) and how much to discount the book to buyers from your distributor - discounts in other words to book stores.

Self - published authors, and even many who go the traditional route, have virtually no opportunity to get their books into brick - and - mortar stores so they can be physically touched before purchase, causing them to miss out on a great deal of potential sales.

Some of the authors I've worked with have managed to get their books into local B&N stores, but the process is complex and can take months.

To be successful as an author, you need help creating a professional book and getting that book into stores.

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!)

However, getting into stores is a huge challenge, unless authors submit their books to Diamond Comic Distributors, the only nationwide distribution platform that exists in the comic book world, and make the cut.

In the case of publishing, I've heard publishing execs boast about how only they can pay author advances (critical for authors seeking to make a living from writing, but less so for enthusiastic hobbyists), and only they can get a book onto that front table at a big bookseller chain (also important, but less so in the era of digital book stores), but I believe the most important role that publishers perform is the one they are strangely reluctant to celebrate: the editor and the process of editing an author's manuscript into a readable book.

So for an indie author this means that in order to get into retailers such as HEB, Walmart, B&N, and airport book stores, you probably need to find a distributor willing to take you.

However, getting into stores is a huge challenge, unless authors submit their books to