POINT ONE: Indie publishers, with a publishing name on their books, can easily
get their books into bookstores without spending one extra dime.
Not exact matches
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.
She talked about her arrangement with IngramSpark which
gets print editions of her
books into bookstores — still not an easy feat for indies — and revealed that she works now
without a literary agent, basically hiring only a foreign - rights agent.
Without doing a POD paper version, you
get your electronic
book into brick - and - mortar
bookstores.
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.