You can
get local bookstores and coffee shops involved.
If you're able to obtain local coverage, this might also be good leverage to
get local bookstores to carry your title.
Also
getting my local bookstore / library to host it has been a challenge in its self.
Not exact matches
In an effort to
get press, one entrepreneur made an appearance at a
local bookstore and literally drew a 20 - mile circle on the map around their appearance location.
Where do you usually
get your books — Amazon, your
local bookstore, the library, or from friends?
I suggest spending several hours (yes, that is how long it will take), and go down to a
local Christian
bookstore,
getting a cup of coffee, and pulling all the Bible translations off the shelf and then just flip them open and start reading.
It comes out March 1, so you can also run - don't - walk next Tuesday and
get it at your
local independent
bookstore.
Head to your
local bookstore or
get on Amazon.com and
get a copy of The Dukan Diet: 2 Steps to Lose the Weight, 2 Steps to Keep It Off Forever and The Dukan Diet Cookbook: The Essential Companion to the Dukan Diet.
Or
get it in your
local bookstore for $ 13.99.
In case you'd like to
get started now and try this out, but feel overwhelmed, look for a story - based children's yoga book at your
local library or
bookstore, such as Jasper's Journey to the Yoga - Animals, and go from there.
Go to your
local library and
bookstore and
get a few books on home schooling (don't buy too many books, or you'll
get overwhelmed and won't read them).
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.
Run - don't - walk next Tuesday and
get it at your
local independent
bookstore.
To find out more about improving your understanding of the opposite sex and your relationships,
get a copy of Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus from www.marsvenuscoaching.com or your
local bookstore.
Get the book on her Web site or at
local bookstores, such as the Boulder Book Store on Pearl Street.
Bookstores could be early adopters and natural locations for these machines — but most bookstores would need help to take the risk out of such and investment — and ongoing support in the form of a galvanized local author community to get people into the habit of ordering books through the new in - store t
Bookstores could be early adopters and natural locations for these machines — but most
bookstores would need help to take the risk out of such and investment — and ongoing support in the form of a galvanized local author community to get people into the habit of ordering books through the new in - store t
bookstores would need help to take the risk out of such and investment — and ongoing support in the form of a galvanized
local author community to
get people into the habit of ordering books through the new in - store technology.
Engage with your
local independent
bookstores to
get your book featured in their stores.
This
got shoved into the front of my brain yesterday when one of my favorite
local bookstores linked off to an opinion article written by a twenty - something who was stridently against electronic readers — to the point that they'd confessed to having irrational hatred for seeing other people reading them.
If you weren't able to
get tickets,
get in touch with your
local bookstore; they may livestream the interview, as Parnassus is planning to do.
The third way to
get your book on a
local bookstore shelf is to go through the back door.
Getting your book in a
local bookstore isn't as easy or as difficult as many authors think.
I've always advocated for working with your
local bookstore to
get copies on the shelf.
If you've
got to have it new, or want the very latest releases at a discount, your best bet is to join your
local bookstore's frequent buyer's club.
Is
getting your book in a
local bookstore hard to do?
Over the years many authors have asked me about how to
get their books sold in
local bookstores.
If you aren't doing an event in a
bookstore, you could choose a venue such as a charming
local wine bar — something that has been popular with our events is to include on the invitation that the first 20 (or whatever) people to come or to buy a book (your choice) will
get a ticket for a free glass of wine.
While you may possibly be able to talk your
local bookstores into carrying your self - published book, the only way to
get it into
bookstores across the nation is by
getting a distributor to carry it.
Not that long ago, there was only one way to
get published: find an agent; hope he or she would represent you; pray they sell your book proposal to a publisher; trust the publisher to
get behind the book and believe in the project; and hope that readers would go to their
local bookstore and buy your book.
I'd
gotten much of the museum and historical sight seeing out of the way on that trip, so I solicited recommendations from
locals, asking for record stores, used
bookstores, bars, and comic shops.
Forget about
getting books onto the shelves of your
local bookstore.
Fans will continue to
get their monthly fix via comiXology or their
local comics shop, but adding these graphic novels to mass - market digital
bookstores makes them a little easier for the general public to find.
This helps support your
local bookstore, in that the store
gets commission for the sale.
Until last year, however, the book was only available in print form in the UK, which made it tough to find; now you can
get it on Amazon but it looks like it's still an import, so it's not something you're likely to find in your
local bookstore.
The sense I
got about talking to their executives is that there is too much work involved in opening up international
bookstores,
getting localized content and tweaking their e-readers and tablets to abide by
local laws.
It is very frustrating and extremely disappointing to have to wait even another day (much less the four months for the e-book or however long before we
get the hardcover in
local bookstores) after having waited so long to read the last book in an epic series.
We're starting to do collaborations with our work with the ABA (American Booksellers Association) where we're doing
local self - publishing nights with the
local bookstores, bringing together the
local self - publishers and having them run clinics for other aspiring self - published authors or people who are trying to
get a handle on what this space is... The catalog keeps growing with new authors all the time, new languages all the time, and even as the total business grows, that percentage of self - published sales remains shockingly consistent.»
While it is possible to
get into
local and regional libraries and independent bookshops, self - published books are unlikely to be seen in
bookstores countrywide.
Look, these fees, sales deals, and low quantities at
bookstores will not have you light cigars with hundred dollar bills, and they are very labor intensive, but catering to brick and mortar stores is something an Indie Author should do for several reasons — to build some
local cache,
get more experience pitching his or her art, and garnering that genuinely terrific feeling of seeing your work on the shelf of a reputable
bookstore.
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.
Go to your
local bookstore and
get online.
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.
Another tactic to
getting your self - published book into
bookstores is by holding a successful reading at your
local bookstore.
I've
got an iPad full of a gazillion - affordably - priced - ebooks I purchased and haven't read yet; a house full of hundreds of print books I've yet to read; an ongoing addiction to big, old, dusty secondhand
bookstores; and I belong to two big
local library system with excellent print and ebook selections / services.
Today we're taking a look
bookstores, which are significant sales channels for traditionally published authors, but for indies, it can be a challenge to
get your books into
local bookstores.
And as an eBook writer, it's your choice if you want to price your printed book at $ 15 apiece and
get limited distribution in a state where fewer than 10,000 people will see it in their
local bookstores.
When I
got home that night, I received a message on Facebook from a
local bookstore owner who wanted to carry Don't Eat Your Boogers in her store.
But, I do have at least eight reviews on amazon, managed to
get my book in our
local library, doing a book signing this Saturday at the
local bookstore / café, and had a sequel night there two weeks ago.
I've made my own group here in Houston where we
get together and support authors at a
local bookstore, enjoy some great food and talk of all things books!
I think customers will dig the fact that they can visit their
local bookstore and then scan titles they want to
get the ebook prices on.
And that's exactly what he
gets when plucky Rose, a new employee at the
local bookstore, and the 10 - year - old son he never knew he had come to town.