The downside is that Amazon owns Createspace and
that means getting into bookstores is going to be much more difficult.
Not exact matches
What this basically
means is that when Bookeen
gets new partners with established
bookstores, the company can integrate any content
into the e-reader, something no other company does.
GoodEReader reported last year how a major publisher, Workman's Algonquin imprint, was experimenting with ebook bundling as a
means to
get readers
into the
bookstores and away from the ease of making their purchases from online retail booksellers.
To this book publicist, that
means working with a print on demand publishing company (such as the big two, CreateSpace and LightningSource) to
get your book
into the Ingram Books system and to make your book available through the online
bookstores.
If cyberspace fails to be the time - wasting stagger - down - the - aisles - and - sit - on - the -
bookstore - floor - reading approach of the bookshop, I say bravo for asking us to
get a grip,
get off the floor, think for ourselves, do a little research, use the damned samples, and order and buy books like discerning readers do, not like sheep who backed
into the Philosophy session and fell over what Sartre
meant about responsibility.
«Marketing and sales»
means getting books
into bookstores, onto online sellers» catalogues, and
into readers» hands.
And even if they
get you
into a
bookstore, that doesn't
mean your book will be there in a large enough quantity to gather attention or that it will be there long enough to be found.
If you feel awkward «hawking» your book, talk about how hard you worked on the book, how much it
means to you to
get the book
into the hands of readers and how strongly you feel about supporting local
bookstores.
LSI can
get you
into major
bookstores, but that doesn't
mean they'll actually stock you.
And I don't
mean as an avenue to any of these other goals (
getting readers, making it
into bookstores, making money).