Sentences with phrase «bookstores on consignment»

I've also learned that putting books into bookstores on consignment isn't worth the time and effort: there are better, smarter, cheaper ways to sell books than to move them one by one in return for miniscule checks for a few dollars.

I put my book in a bookstore on consignment today.

Not exact matches

Second, bookstores prefer buying wholesale from a distributor (rather than on consignment).

Now, after self - publishing two books and prepping the third, I've decided to improve my quality of life by fixing one of these frustrating realities: I'm not selling on consignment to bookstores anymore.

Indeed, our not - so - independent - as - all - that bookstores here in the Portland area apparently don't even bother to read the cover blurbs (since these stores feature and proclaim the very authors cited, yet will neither schedule a reading from this novel, nor accept except — after much pleading — a very few copies on consignment.

Indie booksellers will add your book on consignment sometimes, and LS books might look a little prettier, but I've done just as well getting Createspace books into bookstores and don't notice a huge difference in quality.

When I sell on consignment, each of those book sales matters and I have to track each one on its journey through independent bookstores.

Fading are the days when you could simply drop off a copy with your local bookstore and get an order or at least placement on consignment.

Although bookstores could purchase inventory of an author's book for either the event or to offer on the shelves, a consignment arrangement is more likely.

So are bookstore returns — which mean every book in a brick and mortar store is there on consignment.

I use CreateSpace for my self pubbed titles, but only so I can easily have paperback copies for book signings, a few on consignment to the local bookstore, have copies to send relatives and friends who aren't into e books yet, and do Goodreads giveaways with signed copies.

Most independent or small bookstores will let you put a few books in their shop on consignment, meaning you give them the books and they will pay you if they sell, then order some more.

Busy bookstores may be approached by authors often, and they are probably inundated with consignment offers on any given day.

They've been so focused on getting consignment distributors called bookstores to rack their books they've never really focused on selling to readers.

Also be prepared to split your book 40/60 (40 goes to the bookstore) on consignment.

If bookstore sales are your target, shoot for a Big - 5 blockbuster or quality literary press; or, settle for option 2 and take books around to offer on consignment at your friendly local bookstores.

I'm not going to get in line at the local bookstore (independent or otherwise) and beg them to take me on a consignment basis.

When you sell books to a bookstore, they are essentially bought on consignment.

(Except where I had a personal relationship with three local bookstores and sold it on consignment.)

So you have two options: to buy ISBNs for your books, or to see if they'd be willing to sell them on consignment — this means that you purchase the paperbacks through CreateSpace at cost, then the bookstore will sell those books and split the remaining profit with you.

I don't care for walking into a bookstore, handing someone the sell sheet, and then having them say they'll be glad to do it on consignment.

I have found that many locally owned used bookstores will carry self - published books (mine, anyway) on their shelves, either on consignment or buying them outright.

These are usually sold on consignment basis where a bookstore only pays the author after selling the book.

I also wrote to a few bookstores in San Francisco about selling my book, and I now have an offer from a San Francisco store, M is for Mystery, to sell Maids of Misfortune on consignment at their booth at the Bouchercon conference this month, which I will be attending.

Special sales offers authors a way to to reduce their dependence on «consignment - based» sales through retail channels, characterized by the bookstore's right to return unsold books.

I also get independent bookstores to take a few copies of my books on consignment and I promote and sell them directly through my website too.

When books are bought on consignment, bookstore owners don't have to care if they order slow - sellers or outright flops because almost all unsold books can be returned to the publisher, or even be destroyed, and still generate a refund or credit from the publisher.

If you have hard copies of your self - published book available, many independent bookstores will consider taking copies on a consignment model.

Most bookstores prefer to sell indie books on consignment because the consignment model is less stressful to the store's cashflow: authors don't get paid until after the books sell.

I am placing my books in several bookstores in another state on a 70/30 consignment.

Stephanie Chandler explains the process and offers a free downloadable bookstore consignment agreement in her article, «How Authors Can Sell to Bookstores» on the Nonfiction Authors Association blog.

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.

I've been on bookstore shelves on consignment but decided it wasn't worth the gas and time to go around restocking.

Inquire about their bookstore carrying your book on consignment as well as hosting a signing event.