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.
If your book is a beach read,
get into bookstores at the beach.
Not exact matches
Ten years ago, if I'd
gotten it
into my head to write a children's story, I'd have to pray that some publisher would agree the story was worthwhile, and then that a reader would be able to find my story on a crowded shelf
at a local
bookstore.
How to
Get Self - Published Books into Stores and Libraries An article at Publishers Weekly explains how indie authors are getting creative — and finding success — in their efforts to get books into libraries and booksto
Get Self - Published Books
into Stores and Libraries An article
at Publishers Weekly explains how indie authors are
getting creative — and finding success — in their efforts to
get books into libraries and booksto
get books
into libraries and
bookstores
This is the opposite of what most traditional publishers believe,
at least those whose focus is
getting paper editions
into bookstores.
If you're managing to
get your book
into brick and mortar
bookstores (which will take a lot of hard work), then you'll want to leave it
at 55 %.
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.
The one thing that I really miss is the ability to swap my used «one - time» reads
at the used
bookstore — which is why my parents won't
get into the eReader thing.
Lauren Charles [00:09:12] Yes, a sell sheet, and in fact if you can walk in with something that has your title, the cover of your book, make sure that cover looks nice, make sure that it pops, and then, and I would highly recommend to anyone who's coming in, indie press, small press, anything like that, anyone who's coming
into any level
bookstore, you should be able to say with absolute certainty, this is how you can order my book, this is the discount I know you can
get it
at, and I know it's returnable, and I can even help you.
Yes, if you really want to make a run
at bookstores, go to CreateSpace for only Amazon, then move the same book file to IngramSpark to
get into the Ingrams catalogs and such with better discounts.
Another tactic to
getting your self - published book
into bookstores is by holding a successful reading
at your local
bookstore.
This weekend... learn the latest tips and tricks in
getting your book
into bookstores and working with them...
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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.
And anyone can
get their book
into the order system
at all the major
bookstore chains.
Hence, I tend to look
at things not in terms of self - publishing or vanity publishing, but it terms of whether or not a particular publisher can
get you
into the distribution networks so that your book will show up in the
bookstores.
If anything the discrepancy between bookscan and your royalty statement shows the difference between how good your publisher is
at getting the book
into bookstores and how good it (or the
bookstore) is
at getting it off the shelves.
In fact, if you look
at realities, there's only one thing a publisher does for you — makes it easier to
get into a
bookstore.
Nonetheless,
at least seventy percent of the books sold in the U.S. are still print, so Amazon's inability to
get its titles
into bookstores was a huge strike against the vision that it would be able to compete directly against general trade publishers on big fiction and nonfiction titles.
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