Sentences with phrase «into traditional book stores»

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.

Not exact matches

One thing that a traditional publisher (and I am one) will do is to get their author's books into book stores.

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.

The only real advantage to a traditional publisher was its reach in getting your printed book into retail stores.

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.

The idea of a blog tour can be immediately exciting to many authors and publicists who run into logistical hurtles when planning a traditional book tour (e.g. high costs for travel, coordinating special shipments of books to arrive in time, scheduling events with various stores all with their own full calendars, and bringing in a big enough audience at each venue to make it all worthwhile).

Many of us go with a traditional publisher simply for the hope that their distribution will be the magic key to get our books into stores.

Q. Is there still advertising opportunities for Indie authors who want to pitch paperback books but can't get any into traditional retail stores?

If your primary goal is to get your print book into retail stores around the country, as traditional publishing attempts, you might as well stop here.

Reason # 3... I can get my books out to far, far, far more places and into more stores and more countries around the world as an indie publisher than I ever could through a traditional publisher.

A distributor gets your book into traditional retail locations — stores.

I needn't remind those in traditional publishing about the agonizingly slow process of contracting for a book, developing the manuscript, seeing it through the editorial and design and manufacturing processes, getting it into the stores with adequate publicity — and finally trying to move it off the bookstore shelves.

Traditional companies are also the only way to distribute print books widely into physical stores, including big boxes and airports.

You have to remember, I come from traditional book selling background where before you walk into a store, those books have gone through eight levels of curation like before it even got there.

Self - published authors, and even many who go the traditional route, have virtually no opportunity to get their books into brick - and - mortar stores so they can be physically touched before purchase, causing them to miss out on a great deal of potential sales.

IndieReader In - Store enables authors to get their books into Edelweiss, an online catalog otherwise limited to traditional publishers, used by 37,000 industry professionals, including a majority of bookstores (including B+N!)

Log this one into the cool picture category... This photo from the Flickr account of Jason Kurylo shows UBC's ASRS (Automated Storage and Retrieval System), which allows millions of extra books to be stored in half the space of a traditional shelving.