And although new technology and changes in the publishing industry have made it easier to publish a book, it's not any easier to
get it into book stores.
Now, that was more to
get into book stores because the first thing I thought was, coloring books are everywhere.
They say they can
get you into book stores (they can't — they'll just set you up with Lightning Source, but nobody will put your book in bookstores until you sell a lot of books).
As strange as it sounds, this seems in line with Silent Hill's goofy puzzles, like stealing a pair of tongs from a bakery so you can reach an out - of - reach key in another room, then using those keys to
get into a book store (Silent Hill 3).
Not exact matches
;) I waited in line at Politics and Prose for half an hour, until an employee announced that the
book was sold out and it was unlikely we could
get into the
store.
Between jumping through all the hoops necessary to
get a homeschooler
into a pre-med university program to working with my publisher on the super slow and cumbersome process of
getting my
books onto
store shelves in Barnes & Nobles and Family and Lifeway Christian
Stores, to writing an upcoming
book, my busy schedule had overtaken my parenting.
Get into eating for the baby no sugar lots of veggies and fruits and plenty of protein MAKE sure you take in Folic acid (VERY IMPORTANT) Go to a health food
store and they usually have
books for reference in the front of the
store.
If a regular mass
book got to those shelves or
into a ten cent bin in the front of a
store, it was because it didn't sell and the
store wanted to
get ride of it.
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 technology.
One thing that a traditional publisher (and I am one) will do is to
get their author's
books into book stores.
I have heard credible rumors that Amazon itself is considering
getting into the physical brick and mortar
book store market.
Obviously,
getting your work
into traditional
book stores is a whole other market, one that is difficult at best for an independent, but I expect will become more doable over time.
This allows new authors to
get into self publishing without having to spend a large amount of money or needing to
store and ship their
books themselves.
Making sure an author's
book gets into stores is also a matter of marrying the
book to the right publisher in the first place.
Last week, she explored the step - by - step process of
getting your
book into independent
book stores with Amy Collins.
The guys at Draft2Digital make it very easy to
get your
book into stores, but, once you are there, you go
into immediate competition with millions of other
books all shouting for the attention of readers.
One of the biggest advantages of having your
book published by a leading traditional publisher is the sales and distribution infrastructure that will
get your
book into hundreds if not thousands of
stores upon release.
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.
You won't sell nearly as many
books through Smashwords, but they have the coupon option for mass giveaways / discounts, and they can also
get you
into a number of major
stores like BN.com and iBookstore.
Even grocery
stores are
getting into the game with Tesco recently releasing an Android app to buy / read
books and also use their
store points to
get them for free.
When the T1, T2, and T3 e-readers
get the Kobo
store built
into them, Kobo will be paying Sony a commission for each
book sold.
«Offering
books in the Windows
Store is one of the highest potential sales channels to come to the market in several years; it will be a great opportunity for our publishers to
get their
books into more readers» hands across multiple devices.»
Self - publishing a
book and
getting it
into a brick and mortar
book store can be difficult, sure, because as the publisher of the work, you are required to do all the necessary pitching and proposing, etc..
We know we face an uphill battle
getting our
books into brick and mortar
stores.
Most small presses don't even
get books into those
stores.
With POD publishing, there's no option that will
get you
into brick - and - mortar
stores unless managers specifically order your
books.
How to
Get Self - Published Books into Stores and Libraries An article at Publishers Weekly explains how indie authors are getting creative — and finding success — in their efforts to get books into libraries and booksto
Get Self - Published
Books into Stores and Libraries An article at Publishers Weekly explains how indie authors are getting creative — and finding success — in their efforts to get books into libraries and books
Books into Stores and Libraries An article at Publishers Weekly explains how indie authors are
getting creative — and finding success — in their efforts to
get books into libraries and booksto
get books into libraries and books
books into libraries and bookstores
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.
As vice president of Kindle content, Grandinetti is in charge of
getting as many
books into the Kindle
store as possible (it has 750,000
books for sale).
They could still select and edit and market
books, but their chief task,
getting the
books into stores across the land, would be eliminated.
In fact, all I had to do to
get my
book into Barnes & Noble
stores was become a «vendor of record» in order to establish a «stocking relationship.»
But we know the options, we know that if something suddenly happened to CreateSpace, we would just continue right on publishing paper
books and
getting our
books into stores.
It's tough
getting your self - published
book into book stores.
Publishers have been extremely helpful in
getting distribution
into book stores and airport bookstores; those are all really good things.
Kristine Kathryn Rusch (@kriswrites) reports in The Business Rusch: Shifting Sands that the two major
book distributors, Baker & Taylor and Ingrams, have now put together processes for
getting print - on - demand
books into stores.
Then with the small presses that can
get your
book into the
stores, it takes them about a year so they can properly market it.
You are your
book's marketer: True, but
getting into stores, which is what happens with a trade publisher, is where the marketing $ are spent.
Really good advice in this podcast, especially to do impromptu
book signings at airports when traveling (using Twitter to
get the word out) and going
into non-traditional
book stores such as airport bookstores, spas, hotels and other places that sell
books and talk to the manager.
If you walk
into a comic
book store and buy the latest issue of The Mighty Thor, say, there's a code at the back of the
book that you can punch
into a redemption website to
get a digital version of the
book on ComiXology.
As an indie author whose micro-publisher is in bed with Amazon, I can't
get my
books into such
stores, which refuse on principle because the telltale barcode and «printed in» on the last verso page of my
books proves they were printed by Amazon's CreateSpace — despite an independent imprint with its own ISBNs.
Authors always think they don't
get any marketing help b / c they don't see ads, or commercials, but the act of
getting the
book into stores takes money.
So I wasn't all too enthused about trying to
get my
book into stores.
Traditionally, one of the biggest values publishers have offered authors is the ability to
get their
books into stores.
As
stores contribute less to the task of
getting books into the hands of readers, publishers will be less willing to give them half their pie.
We've just released our very own Pressbooks Guide to Self - Publishing, which will explain how to
get your
book into print and ebook
stores (using Pressbooks) for under $ 100.
Several publishers have also taken steps to give booksellers avenues to
get books into their
stores faster than ever; Penguin Random House's rapid replenishment program offers booksellers two - day guaranteed delivery during the busy holiday season.
Add in Ingram
getting books into real
stores, or createspcae doing it, and the big 5 fade away.
The only real advantage to a traditional publisher was its reach in
getting your printed
book into retail
stores.
Even
Book stores have
gotten into the game, and you can purchase them at Chapters / Indigo and Barnes and Noble.
One of the biggest advantages to having a publisher is
getting your
book into brick and mortar
stores and we know that most of these
stores are not doing very well.