Sentences with phrase «indie book store»

Our town didn't have a cool little Indie book store and the nearest one, other than the Waldenbooks chain, was forty or fifty minutes away.

One of our clients emailed us and asked whether Best Indie Book Store would be the good deal for her eBook launch.

So, you know, just describe the difference between an indie book store and a chain store for our listeners.

The book sells out regularly at my indie book store and is in several public libraries.

Just as an aside, Will is going to be speaking at my favorite local indie book store this coming Thursday.

There are now 2,000 indie book stores, whereas there were 4,000 twenty years ago.

Many indie book stores don't have a problem with ordering directly from a publisher (you)... you need the same criteria in that you want a good looking book and will drive people to the stores.

As I explained further down the comments the Indie Books store has been around since 2011, and it was an unsuccessful feature as readers didn't want or need it to find good books.

The Kindle Indie Books store was set up in 2011, and Amazon have never «moved» books there.

The features would include access to indie book stores, indie and hybrid publishers, vetted book blog review sites, book clubs who are open to an author approach, and discounts on a variety of goods and services.

Google has partnered with a number of indie book stores, including Powell's and Alibris, to sell e-books from the Google eBookstore directly from their own Websites.

I've published three novels now, and pored over every review in every periodical and blog, compulsively checked my Amazon reviews and rankings, scrutinized my royalty statements, and done endless marketing and PR for my books, including once driving 1400 miles in seven days to visit 28 indie book stores.

Bonnie Baker Boyles sent this one of Rapeseed's bookstore debut in one of my favorite indie book stores, Rainy Day Books — FACE OUT display, even!

The best part is selling to Indie book stores and doing signings.

All the books offered here can be found on Amazon, Koko, B&N Indie Book Stores and at bookstores everywhere and now at ENVISION.

Besides the WWW team reaching out regularly to bloggers, social media followers, indie book stores, readers at book festivals and more, once every few months we circle back to the coolest source — YOU — to ferret out the latest live book clubs in cities around the world.

May 1, 2013 celebrated our first birthday with the launch of our Winner Circle, which has since helped authors successfully garner hundreds of influencers; reviewers, live book clubs and indie book stores carrying news of their words to ever - expanding audiences.

I haven't even collected checks for book sales that I know are waiting for me at some indie book stores.

Not exact matches

Purchase our cookbook at the following retail outlets: Amazon USA Amazon UK Amazon Canada Alibris Abe Books Barnes and Noble Half.com Indie Bound Books - a-Million Powell's Prepbooks Independent book stores and anywhere cookbooks are sold.

Okay, but the thing is, this store won't carry any books written by either my small / indie press or self - published writer friends!

This won't work for other stores but then those won't sell as many books for the average indie publisher.

Joel Friedlander, who's been designing print books for decades and blogs at the Book Designer, told me in an email that when indie authors try to sell books to stores or arrange an event, they find out the «awful truth»:

Like the revolution which happened in the book industry, from book stores to ebooks, from big and medium press publishers to indie publishing, the film industry is undergoing a similar revolution.

This hurts the indie author movement, trying to validate themselves as financially viable, hurts the journalism industry (how do we know just how well self - publishing is vs trade publishing) and the bookselling industry as a whole (if it doesn't have its own ISBN there is no way we can order the book for our stores)

Ideally, you're shopping in indie bookstores throughout the year, not just one commemorative day, but it's fun to think of May 2nd — Independent Bookstore Day — as the Black Friday of books and booksellers, the day when the traffic to their stores can let them rest a little easier financially, at least for the rest of the month.

Things are simply easier to discover when shopping an Amazon, but a new app is hoping to make buying books from indie stores more appealing.

If you, the indie author, go in there and convince them to try to order your book and they can only get a 20 % discount, then chances are that store doesn't order much from that distributor.

But for me, with my indie - published book, my novel or story is still just out there in thousands of stores worldwide, in a growing market, still selling.

As an indie author, I'm forced to create and sell two identical (same - ISBN) versions of each print book: 1) A CreateSpace - printed version to sell online at Amazon (but no extended distribution) 2) A LightningSource - printed, Ingram - distributed version for Barnes & Noble retail stores, indie bookstores, and the like.

One of the keys is that you, as the publisher of your own indie publisher, must decide if paper books are worth it, if having your books in store catalogs and on bookstore shelves are worth it.

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 booksBooks 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 booksbooks 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.

My indie ebooks are listed on my Square store, so you can go there to order those books from me, with the added bonus of specifying what format of book you want.

One indie owner here in our town has a cart that wheels out onto the front area of the store and it's full of ten - cent books.

If you're talking about a custom order from an indie store of some specialized title that might take longer; especially if the indie store doesn't order in carton quantities... and by carton quantities... I'm not saying all one title but a mixture of books to fill one carton... if that were the case the order would take longer to ship because of minimum orders.

And with indie publishing stores reporting in so many different ways, it takes some work to see how many books in a certain time period a book actually sold.

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.

If indie authors now have the ability to get their books listed at every ebook store, why then are some authors so quick to surrender their worldwide distribution in favor of territorial distribution and retailer exclusivity?

For my indie - published work, the very best way to make sure I get the most money is to just buy books from me directly — either via my Paypal.Me link, or via my Square store.

And without a doubt, the deal is really swell, considering that there are indie authors already selling thousands of books a month via the Kindle store.

This week Anne is visiting the Alliterative Allomorph, where she's talking about how the indie revolution has positively affected all readers, even if you still only buy paper books at brick and mortar stores.

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The indie store, more than ever, is becoming the destination of choice to buy new books.

Many of the authors would consider traditional publishing in the future for the reason that they want their books in physical book stores, a market that is still difficult for indie authors to penetrate.

I am tickled that they are selling in the USA but I would have rather seen them take it to sell at independent book stores then advertise to go to your indie bookstore for one and help the little stores compete or sell at Best Buy but Walmart is better than nothing

«One of the biggest challenges indie authors face is getting their books into brick & mortar stores,» explains Amy Edelman, founder of IndieReader.

The ridiculous hoop jumping that authors have to endure in order to have their books even sold in a «real» bookstore, let alone featured, means that indie physical stores have the power to offer authors something they can't get otherwise, while at the same time not simply competing as violently with major online retailers.

«It took Edelweiss — and the growing interest among book buyers to carry self published titles in their stores (see recent articles in the Christian Science Monitor and Publisher's Weekly that note increasing interest from indie bookstores in self - pubbed titles)-- to help solve the problem.»

While I think the stores have the right to pull books, the focus on indie authors over ALL erotica seems unfair (has anyone pulled Fifty Shades of Gray?).

A little while ago, I was interested in an indie book that was free in the Amazon US store, but when I went to download it in the Amazon Australia store it was still at full price.