"Local booksellers" refers to small, independent bookstores that are locally owned and operated within a specific community or area.
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When a publisher offers direct special sales at deep below - cost discount, it damages the publisher's historic partnership
with local booksellers.
While it's tempting to contact booksellers via email, in - person visits can be more effective and
help local booksellers put a face to your name.
Get to
know local booksellers and librarians, so that you have a relationship (or at least a familiarity) with them prior to your publication date.
Connect
with local booksellers to host a beach - read event (hint: invite other writers to make it a group event and increase your crowd - drawing power).
In the US this year, the ABA thought e-book purchases was a significant enough factor that they partnered with Google to make e-books available through the websites
of local booksellers.
In addition, the company is working with some of the best
local booksellers in Australia, including Booktopia and Dymocks, who are selling eBooks today, with QBD The Bookshop and The Co-op Bookshop coming soon.
In 1454, soon after Johannes Gutenberg had developed printing in movable letters in Mainz near Frankfurt, the first book fair was held
by local booksellers.»
That's still pretty good value and, of course, ebooks from Amazon currently escape the 12.5 % (soon to be 15 %) sales tax levied here, a tough reality for
local booksellers who must charge it.
Thursday,
local booksellers Betsy Burton of The King's English, Ken Sanders of Ken Sanders Rare Books, and Catherine Weller of Weller Book Works are stacking our studio with books they say should be on your holiday gift list.
The downside there, he says, is that «no
German local bookseller will order a book from Amazon,» meaning, he says, that he's selling about one print copy for every 10 ebook copies at the moment.
Amy's novel, Bloodroot, goes on sale in January and since the author is a true Tennessee girl, her very wise Ingram account manager, Jason Gobble, set up a dinner
with local booksellers and media.
After that came browsing the stacks at my
favorite local bookseller, lunch in their cafe with a friend and then home to watch several episodes of Portlandia.
If you don't have your copy yet, you can order one on Amazon or pick one up at many Barnes & Noble stores and
local booksellers.
Ask
your local bookseller to order the book for you, call the distributor directly at 1-800-805-1083, or write to Kids Can Press, Ltd., 85 Rivre Rock Drive - Suite 202, Buffalo, NY 14207 - 2170.
Ask
your local bookseller to order a copy of A Child's Grief Journey, available in paperback for $ 8.95, or contact the publisher directly at Marco Products, Inc., 1443 Old York Road, Warminster, PA 18974.
Check with
your local bookseller for information about any of these Kingfisher books.
Check with
your local bookseller.
Instead, talk to
your local bookseller or librarian about your book.
You could approach
your local bookseller and ask their advice or check the price of similar books yourself.
That is obviously a fairly ridiculous example for the purposes of illustrating where industry watchers already fear this precedent could lead, but what is clear is that the tax structure surrounding the entire book industry has been called into question in Europe for some time, largely with the advent of corporations like Amazon having one set of rules, and
local booksellers being subjected to another.
Again, it makes Amazon even more powerful while hurting
the local booksellers.
Will you be ordering multiple copies of The Lacuna to give away as gifts, or do you plan on sticking to
your local bookseller for a more memorable book - buying experience?
NAIBA expects every publisher to respect the relationships between
the local bookseller and members of their community.
Make friends with
your local booksellers and librarians, and never miss your book club meeting.
Even if that's not possible, you should support
your local booksellers.
Mark Lefebrve, director of Self - Publishing and Author Relations at Kobo, said in a press release on the venture, «Having worked as a bookseller for twenty years, I recognize the critical role that
local booksellers and librarians play in the role of supporting local authors.
Unlike initiatives that woke consumers up to the great titles being published by independent authors, this campaign is aimed at
the local booksellers in hopes that they will finally see the benefits to taking risks on self - published books.
Readers used to discover favorite books and authors by casually browsing the shelves of
their local booksellers or reading the review sections of print newspapers.
If you already have a relationship with
your local booksellers, it will be easier to approach them about stocking your self - published book.
They'd be much more likely to adopt Amazon's Kindle ereaders if they thought they could find new books for much less than they could by 1) buying Amazon's own hardcovers or 2) shopping at
the local bookseller (think retail discounter and current ebook competitor Barnes and Noble).
Well, it's not so simple as author to sell own books to
the local bookseller.
If
a local bookseller doesn't have a copy at the moment, I encourage everyone to order it.
It's kind of rude to walk into a bookstore that you've never been into before, without kind of understanding that you should hopefully shop there at that
local bookseller, instead of just automatically buying your books from Amazon.
Indies First / Small Business Saturday Authors of all kinds have opportunities to volunteer at
their local booksellers while helping to promote their books themselves on Small Business Saturday (the Saturday after Thanksgiving) when many independent bookstores host a #IndiesFirst events.
Once you have made some inroads with
local booksellers, doors will open to even more book publicity opportunities in your community, like local author events.
«Ideally, we will be able to reach out to e-reader fans and encourage them to go to
the local bookseller because they can have both versions for one price.