Sentences with phrase «get into bookstores as»

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Had publishers treated Amazon like a retailer out to sell as many of their works as possible, rather than seeing this business partner as a threat to the bookstores they already worked with, they could have kept Amazon (or delayed them) from getting into publishing.

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.

And questions such as how they get their books into bookstores.

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.

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.

The biggest advantage to being traditionally published is arguably the publisher's ability to get their books into as many bookstores and other retail outlets as possible.

Ingram is indispensable to getting their works into bookstores, just as Amazon is indispensable to their tapping the online and ereader market.

I can't get into details right now, but i find it interesting just as Diamond digital stops giving coupons and codes to bookstores is about the same time marvel is developing their own app.

But that wasn't the case, because the next time around I decided to self - publish a 300 - page book as a paperback and ebook, with the aim of getting into bricks and mortar bookstores as well — so a whole new set of skills and needs.

I did sign with an agent and I am anxious to sign that first deal with a traditional publisher that he is working to line up for me because I see value in getting hard copies into bookstores and gaining access to the international markets that would be difficult to penetrate as an indie - only writer.

As you'll hear in the interview, Patti Brassard Jefferson and Timothy Jacobs grew frustrated when trying to get their books into local bookstores and decided to create the Gulf Coast Bookstore.

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.

Said James Patterson in a New York Times interview, «The reality is that women buy most books... The reality is that it's easier, and a really good habit, to start to get parents when they walk into a bookstore to say, «You know, I should buy a book for my kid as well.»»

As you say, managing the printing and distribution myself via my own eStore has proved more profitable than distributing via bookstores, but I believe it's a worthwhile sacrifice getting into chain stores to reach readers who aren't comfortable buying online.

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.

GoodEReader reported last year how a major publisher, Workman's Algonquin imprint, was experimenting with ebook bundling as a means to get readers into the bookstores and away from the ease of making their purchases from online retail booksellers.

Smashwords gets your story up on Smashwords (a store itself), but it also functions as a gateway site to get your work into bookstores powered by Kobo, Sony, iPad, and others.

But it might be pretty large as your list of books grow and you get them into bookstores down the road.

It's still a good idea to go to publishers / agents as they have more resources and can get you into bookstores more easily, but if you are are not patient enough to wait, or the rejections get to you, or you want to skip publishers altogether, then self - publishing is a great option

As an added benefit, having a print version of your book can get you into bookstores (see below for more on this).

To this book publicist, that means working with a print on demand publishing company (such as the big two, CreateSpace and LightningSource) to get your book into the Ingram Books system and to make your book available through the online bookstores.

That said, I was successful in getting Nagle's Mercy into some independent bookstores and libraries, and most books are sold online now, so a retail presence may not be as important.

As a publisher said to me a couple months ago, «I would suggest to you that the chance [of getting your book into a physical bookstore] is extremely minuscule.»

Variety «Self publishing has become a legitimate method of getting into print as libraries and even bookstore superchains are opening their shelves to the growing number of entrepreneurial writers.»

Getting self - publishers into print and into bookstores, Geuppert says, remains a hurdle for German indies as it does for their American and British counterparts.

Getting a book into bookstores is a great topic that I would like to cover as well.

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.

As for getting into known venues, yes, traditional publishers can get you into the bookstores.

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.

Trying to get it into bookstores on my own just seemed so troublesome and expensive, and not likely to bring me many new readers unless I sent them there in the first place — which clearly is the dilemma of the major publishing industry as well.

«They had an oligopoly over paper distribution for decades [as] the only way to reach readers was through bookstores [and] the only way to get into a bookstore was through those publishing gatekeepers.

And I don't mean as an avenue to any of these other goals (getting readers, making it into bookstores, making money).

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