Sentences with phrase «get on bookstore 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.

Not exact matches

And this chokehold not only affects the inventory you find on Christian bookstore shelves, but which books are contracted by publishers, what content gets edited in the writing and editing process, and the degree of freedom authors feel they have to speak on their own blogs and platforms.

After a bit of a kerfuffle, I got to keep «vagina,» but with no promise that the book will be featured prominently on Christian bookstore shelves.

The Blood - Red Crescent: Henry Garnett Enemy Brothers: Constance Savery (to slake an inexhaustible thirst for World War II stories) and whatever else he can get his hands on via the library, the secondhand bookstore, where he is a regular customer, and our own shelves.

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.

I know that summer vacation is getting close because I've recently found myself perusing the shelves of my favorite used bookstores and building a stack on my bedside table.

It used to be that getting your book on a bookstore's shelf was the easiest way to ensure sales.

Unless there is a history of sales or a clear book marketing plan from the author to get books off bookstore shelves, most stores won't take a chance on a new author.

The third way to get your book on a local bookstore shelf is to go through the back door.

I've always advocated for working with your local bookstore to get copies on the shelf.

Getting into a bookstore is more of a source of pride and an additional source of physical promotion through book signings and getting on sGetting into a bookstore is more of a source of pride and an additional source of physical promotion through book signings and getting on sgetting on shelves.

If you plan to approach bookstores to stock your book on their shelves, you'll need a visually appealing bookstore sell sheet, which is what retailers and wholesalers use to get the information they need to order copies of your book.

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.

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.

A chance to get your work out there and someday see it on the library and bookstore shelves, being perused by all the inquisitive minds that want to know.

If you have a desire to get to bookstores (a fools errand for the most part, but still many want to see that one book sitting on a wooden shelf), go through Ingrams Spark with that.

I get excited when I go to a bookstore and see my author's books on shelves.

Read more for tips about how to get your book on their shelves or listen to our podcast episode about how to sell your book to indie bookstores.

To date, the best way to get a book seen is on a bookstore shelf.

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.

Whether you want to get your book on the shelves or set up a book signing event, you can confidently approach bookstores knowing you have a professional, trade - quality book to promote and sell.

This means if getting your title stocked on bookstore shelves is part of your marketing plan, Booksellers Return Program is an essential element to earning shelf space and / or in - store book signings.

Once the claw of luck grabs us, we have very little control, and we have less and less as the book gets closer to sitting on the bookstore shelves.

Most authors still are responsible for their own marketing but it will be easier for them to get the books on the shelves of bookstores.

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.

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

And don't forget, if you do get your book on the shelves of your local bookstore, snap some pictures and share it with your social media network, post about it on your blog, and list the bookstore as a location to find your book on your website.

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

It's a small victory for self - published authors like myself to get their books on bookstore shelves.

The New York Times «The film rights to self - published books are getting acquired even before the big houses can get them onto bookstore shelves with their own imprints on them.»

Before, niche romance and erotica authors had to conform to their publishers» desired subject matter to get that coveted paperback on a bookstore's shelves — now, readers can barely keep up with the ever - increasing «girl - on - centaur» and «boy - on - merman» creations going on sale daily.

And although I was never a Tom Clancy fan, one could SEE the problem as his books on the bookstore shelves kept getting bigger.

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 agree with your tip about starting with your local bookstore when trying to get your book on a shelf.

Selling your book with a wholesale discount and making it returnable via a book distributor is the best route to getting your book on bookstore shelves.

As an independently publishing author, you want your book to be positioned along with other titles, published by the bigger houses, and getting your book on the bookstore shelves can do just that.

... 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.

However, your cookbook gets a lot of support in return: you'll work with a top editor who will champion your book; they'll cover your costs of development, marketing and distribution; access to reviewers, prize consideration and literary outlets; and your book will be available on the shelves of bookstores.

Outfits like iUniverse, Xlibris, and AuthorHouse (which have merged and been consolidated under AuthorSolutions) offered a range of packages to help authors get their books in print, though most books never sat on a bookstore shelf and sold a few dozen copies at best.

Where we question the general lack of imaginative or world - changing storytelling, or the hundreds of thousands of boring formula fiction with bad covers (got ta have bad to recognise the truly good), we must also question why similar stuff is sitting on my local bookstore's shelves.

If your objective is to gain recognition by lining the shelves of brick - and - mortar bookstores in shopping plazas across the country — and you've got the wherewithal to pitch multiple agents on a blockbuster topic with mass appeal — then a trade publishing house might suit you.

Now granted, I've been working at an indie bookstore for twenty years so I do have an advantage in getting my books on local store shelves but it's not hard for everyone else to do it too.

A: Distributors are the key to getting on the shelves of bookstores.

Hi, Debbie, How can I get a self - published book on the shelves of bookstores?