So if you're putting in the effort to market the heck out of your book and generate demand, it will only be a matter of time before
the bookstores come calling.
Not exact matches
I was browsing a second hand
bookstore in San Francisco a month or so ago, and
came across an obscure little paperback (published in 1972)
called The Art of Indian Cooking by Monica Dutt.
My local area (LA / San Diego) indie
bookstores won't return my
calls or emails about signing in their store, yet bemoan the fact on PW that «authors won't
come sign.»
One interesting new initiative
comes from a
bookstore in Toronto that operates what they
call the Biblio - Mat; it's a vending machine that dispenses random old books for two dollars a pop.
All of the various B&N
bookstores have told us that they only received 5 to 8 units per store and most were only available to people who
called the store to reserve them before they officially
came out.
When John Churchman dropped off his self - published picture book, The SheepOver, at his local Vermont
bookstore in early October, he had no idea that within a month, major booksellers and agents would
come calling.