If I were to guess, I'd say that at some point, when big publishers start filing for bankruptcy, Barnes and Noble is gone, and nobody can afford to
get into the book retailing business, we might find the DoJ moving in a different direction than they have now and regretting they stepped into this whole mess in the first place.
Not exact matches
You find distributors or wholesalers to
get your
books into retail outlets where they are sold off the shelf to consumers.
There are many new opportunities in the digital age to bring value
into the community of the comic
book store... but there has to be some motivating factors for
retailers to
get excited, and for customers to want to participate — we think we have solutions to those problems, and we'll be
getting more
into that early this year.
Many independent publishers and most self - published authors struggle to
get books into retail outlets because they can't
get them
into distributors and wholesalers.
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.
The only real advantage to a traditional publisher was its reach in
getting your printed
book into retail stores.
«Our immediate priority right now is
getting books into the queue for vetting,
getting them approved, and
getting those
books distributed out to the
retailers online.
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Use our distribution services to
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It could be great news if Goodreads reviews are rolled
into Amazon and help your
books get discovered on the largest online
book retailer.
It's still not easy (dare I say it's very hard)
getting your
books widely distributed
into stores and other
retail outlets that major publishers already have access to.
NFC could give
book retailers who also are
getting into the ebooks game to give their own branded device new functionality that would make the technology feel even more current.
Many new
book retailers are
getting into the ebooks and e-reader game.
If a writer wanted to
get their
book into bookstores where readers discover and purchase
books, they needed a traditional publishing deal because publishers controlled access to
retail distribution
While this is changing — some literary agents are taking indie authors now, and organizations are cropping up to give self - published
books physical
retail opportunities — it's still darn near impossible to
get an independently published
book into bookstores.
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 your primary goal is to
get your print
book into retail stores around the country, as traditional publishing attempts, you might as well stop here.
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.
No, I won't
get into how your
book will be judged by its cover by all prospective buyers perusing Amazon and the other
retailers.
Get your
books into as many online
retail channels as possible.
They act as a wholesaler and / or warehouse, working with publishers to
get books into retail stores (online or offline).
eBook
retailing takes this one step further, with the ability to share behavioural as well as sales data — how many
books purchased are actually opened, how far
into a
book customers
get before abandoning, etc..
There is a lot of opportunities to
get your
book into a variety of
retailers online in e-
book formats and so it's a good way for people to
get to know you as an authors.
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.
Learn how to
get your
book into the hands of five major
retailers: Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Sony, Apple, and Kobo.
Once your
book get converted we will distribute
into all major online
retail stores and give you the royalty percentage of your
book sale.
I love the idea of
getting books into retail outlets that aren't known for selling
books, so I'm glad to hear that the venues in your region are open to that idea.
A distributor
gets your
book into traditional
retail locations — stores.
After the distributor
gets the
books into the
retail chain stores I make direct contact with as many of them as possible within my region and set up
book signings where I hand out bookmarks and candy.
It takes a (helluva) lot of time and money for self - published
books to
get on the radar (never mind
into the inventory and then shelf space) of a
retail bookstore.
But
getting into the bookstores can be done, and when you establish your
book in the
retail channel, you may find that orders continue to flow in for years to come.
Wool did well for Simon & Schuster, despite their problems
getting the
book into Barnes & Noble bookstores [because of
retail contract negotiations, now resolved], so there is money to be made here.
Publishers do sell
books in sufficient quantities to make their businesses viable, but if you want to
get into retail, you'll find thousands of products that come with less competition and fewer price constraints.
* 3) Each appearance on a list
gets an unweighted score based on the ranking 4) Ranking scores are logarithmically determined (i.e. top scores are much more valuable than lower scores) 5) Each
retailer weighted by approximate market share as determined by the editors of Digital
Book World and Iobyte Solutions 6) Additional appearance credit is awarded for appearing on multiple lists 7) Combined scores for the week determine final score for each title 8) Titles are ranked by final scores and also grouped
into sub-lists by price (four separate price - band lists: $ 0 — $ 2.99; $ 3.00 — $ 7.99; $ 8.00 — $ 9.99; and $ 10.00 and above) 9) Minimum price that appeared at any point during the week on any
retailer is used for determine price band (assumption that low price is an important driver of ranking)
Are you primarily focused on online
retailers or
getting your
book into physical stores?
The Asus Transformer
Book is slowly trickling out
into the wild and UltrabookReview.com have
got their hands on one and have posted both a video and extensive written review of the elusive UltraBook which should help ease the wait till it hits
retail in adequate quantities.
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.
The
book retailer has struggled in the face of stiff competition and recently began looking
into getting liquor licenses for a location in New York: will this save the chain?
Since the company was playing catch - up to some extent with Amazon's Kindle — at least in the e-reader department — it came up with a way of
getting the major publishing houses on its side: instead of the wholesale - pricing approach that existed prior to Apple's entry
into the market, which gave
retailers (including Amazon) the ability to set
book prices wherever they wanted, the agency model would allow publishers to set the price.