Not exact matches
Once a book has
gone to print, and been shipped
to bookstores all across the world, there's no way make any additions or changes,
without publishing an updated version.
Yes, an avid reader and the reason she loves her Kindle are exactly the 3 reasons you give, Anne: - big font - light - instant purchase when a book is finished
without the hassle of
going to a
bookstore or a lending library (she has a hard time moving around — her brain is just fine, the body, well, so - so...)
So,
without the stupidity of
going to fifteen different cities and trying
to do signings and sending useless bookmarks
to five hundred stores or doing blog tours that take weeks of time and get you no readers, I'm
going to try
to describe some ways
to promote and push your indie - published books
to readers and
bookstores in a sane manner.
«Paperback scored very well over hardback for
bookstore discovery, and I think what's happened here is people were hearing about
Gone Girl and
going into the
bookstore without having
to discover it.»
With e-books you will be able
to purchase as many books as you want
without a necessity
to go to the library or buy books in the
bookstores.
For those
without a good indie
bookstore in their area, they are
going to boot up their computer and
go straight
to Amazon — or BN.com —
to order a book.
The cost per book for PoD is also
going down, a few years ago, the PoD printing cost was higher than the retail cost of an offset print book, then it dropped so it was lower than the retail cost of a similar sized book, but
without sufficient margin
to allow you
to sell
to bookstores at 50 % list price (let alone deal with the returns).