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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.

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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.

Having worked with traditional publishers and self - published several of her books, Massey has great advice for indie authors on independent publishing, book marketing and strategies for getting a book into bookstores, libraries and reviews.

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.

The second generation platform launched in early 2013 and focuses on getting indie authors to submit their books for inclusion into the Nook bookstore.

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POINT ONE: Indie publishers, with a publishing name on their books, can easily get their books into bookstores without spending one extra dime.

This is a fear based on lack of knowledge and still believing the old myth that it is hard to get a book (not done by a traditional publisher) into a bookstore.)

Although Ingram makes your book available to them, there is no guarantee that stores / libraries will order your book, which is why we have several other blog posts with tips on how to sell your book to bookstores and how indie authors can get their books into libraries.

A publisher might be able to get the book into a bookstore chain, but the day to day marketing falls on the author's shoulders.

One of the on - going problems with indie publishing is that it's been all but impossible to get print copies of your book into bricks - and - mortar bookstores.

This change will put a lot of pressure on other bookstores, and by luring people into the store, Barnes & Noble may be able to get customers to buy something else.

After all, you saw on Create Space that they could get you into bookstores and libraries all you have to do is click the «extended distribution for bookstores and libraries» button.

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.

If getting published traditionally doesn't especially help you to get your books on the shelves of stores (unless you are talented, awesome, hard - working, and lucky enough to be a Jim Butcher), then you've got a legitimate reason to question whether you want to roll the dice with traditional publishers (who absolutely offer many great advantages), or get 70 % royalties on your indie ebooks and get paid 80 % of your print book's list price (minus the cost of POD printing) with your print - on - demand book via Lightning Source and their 20 % short discount option — which gets you right into Amazon.com and other online bookstores, just like the big boys do.

Already over the 100 outlets and you haven't even started into getting the bookstores on board or the new distributors coming in that will also help you get your paper books into bookstores and gift shops.

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.

If you get your book into a regional holiday gift guide that is supported by the independent bookstore market and the American Booksellers Association, you can be sure that you will start getting orders from those same independents and ABA members that are stacking the catalogs on their counters.

With less time spent on worrying about getting into the bookstores, the independent publisher can concentrate on promotion and publicity.

Traditional publishing was too focused on getting their print books into the bookstores, whereas digital publishing sites are focused on the reader, on getting the reader to click the buy button.»

Eric H. Roth commented on the post, Libraries and Bookstores Are Getting Into Indie Publishing 1 year ago

Sure you can get your books on shelves, no issue, but many decide it's not worth the extra effort because it is so easy to get books into electronic bookstores.

Moreover with a publisher the book will get into libraries and bookstores and on radio much easier.

When author Regina Sirois decided to self - publish her young adult literary fiction, On Little Wings, she found the process satisfying but for one aspect: the gate to getting her book into bookstores was nearly impossible to open.

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.

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

They no longer have to run their works past hordes of agents, editors, and marketing teams in order to get into print — only to worry then about how clerks will position and place their works on bookstore shelves, and for how long.

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.

The getting into the distributor catalogs — and into libraries and on bookstore shelves — is one reason I am considering trying out Ingram Spark.

Xulon press claims they can get your book into 71,000 bookstores in the world and on the Internet.

If you hope to get your book into bookstores and on shelves, you need to consider these services.

In the last year or so, the PoD price has dropped to the point where you can now get them into bookstores and not loose money on them.

I spend a lot of time on social media — the hardest is getting into bookstores.

-LSB-...] on online retailers like Amazon.com, try to get them into bookstores, and essentially to become a competitive publisher, that's when you need to set up a company if you don't have one -LSB-...]

If cyberspace fails to be the time - wasting stagger - down - the - aisles - and - sit - on - the - bookstore - floor - reading approach of the bookshop, I say bravo for asking us to get a grip, get off the floor, think for ourselves, do a little research, use the damned samples, and order and buy books like discerning readers do, not like sheep who backed into the Philosophy session and fell over what Sartre meant about responsibility.

With your book listed on Google Books (print) and the Google eBookstore (ebooks), someone can walk into a local bookstore (if the store is also a member of the Google Books Partner Program) and place an order for that book, and the store gets some credit.

Many authors publish on Lightning Source to get their books into the Ingram catalog which bookstores use to make their orders.

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.

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.

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.

69 % of ALL US book purchases were online in 2016, so worry less about getting print into bookstores and use Print - on - demand.

Whether you dream of seeing your book in bookstores, on TV, on the radio, or adapted into a film, AuthorHouse is committed to providing the tools and services to help you get started and realize your publishing dreams.

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.

... The requirements to deliver on the promise «to put books on shelves» included the capital to invest and specialized knowledge to turn a manuscript into inventory, a physical plant to manage the warehousing and shipping of those books, and a network of relationships with the owners of the shelves (in the bookstores) to get the right to put your books on those shelves.

If you just want your book on library shelves, you may run into the same issues you face when trying to get it on bookstore shelves.

If you feel awkward «hawking» your book, talk about how hard you worked on the book, how much it means to you to get the book into the hands of readers and how strongly you feel about supporting local bookstores.

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.

My husband and I created our own publishing company, Teen Mystery Press, hoping that having a legitimate publishing company logo on my novels would help me get into bookstores.

But it's not the only POD (Print on Demand) solution for indie authors, and it's not going to help you get into indie bookstores, local retailers, and libraries.

If your heart is set on getting into bookstores, then self - publishing those first million words before sitting down with an agent might be your best ticket to success in both arenas.