Not exact matches
I don't feel guilty taking them along when we
get groceries or pay bills or drop off
library books or help others or any other of the chores and tasks and work that goes
into running this little family.
If we can
get our
books into the major
libraries around the world, it'll give out authors a long term advantage over authors who aren't in
libraries.
I want to
get my
book into libraries but didn't really know how except to send fliers.
«Fabulous idea, but after trying repeatedly, and unsuccessfully, to upload
books and always
getting error messages, I conclude that unless your
library system is already enrolled, your
book will
NOT be accepted
into the system.
Libraries will always be a place to get information from all sources — most of the foot traffic into public libraries today comes from people coming in for internet computers, not coming in to read a dead - tr
Libraries will always be a place to
get information from all sources — most of the foot traffic
into public
libraries today comes from people coming in for internet computers, not coming in to read a dead - tr
libraries today comes from people coming in for internet computers,
not coming in to read a dead - tree
books.
Don't know if having my
book with Lulu will
get me
into bookstores and
libraries, though.
If it's just a great story but
not groundbreaking, that's OK if readers love it... which you can prove by
getting it
into the hands of real readers of your target age group — yes you can have them request your
book at a
library and they will look it up, but they'll check your online reviews and see how it's performing first and whether it has any credible reviewers they recognize.
Margaret Harrison [00:02:07] Oh thanks, well so, yeah, I've worked my whole career in publishing and I started out on the ebook side working for OverDrive, a major distributor of ebooks at public
libraries, and focusing on ebooks, so much of it is about the metadata,
not just
getting books into channels but also making sure those
books, as Justine said, can be discoverable, can be found, and so I started spending a lot more of my time on metadata, and I'm a curious person so I
got to know a lot and here I am
Unless specifically stated and offered by the self - publishing company, making your
book available to and through
book distribution channels does
not include any proactive sales efforts to
get your
book into bookstores or
libraries.
Good luck with the cleaning cats... Like you, I have a houseful of
books, a
library I haven't
got time to go
into, and used bookstores are always a passion.
Personally, my reading list now divides
into three categories:
books I must own in hardcopy;
books I really don't love enough to have physical, lendable copies of, but want to be able to reread; and
books I'll
get from the
library first (or solely).
Getting your
books into libraries might
not seem as «glamorous» as a store window.
It doesn't take long for a link
library to
get out of date, and all the hard work you've put
into marketing yourself on blogs, in
book reviews, and on podcasts is suddenly undone as your links become out of date or even extinct.
Certainly those standardized categorical identifiers are important for bookstores and
libraries, but as authors have discovered, their
books aren't
getting into bookstores anyway, at least
not without massive amounts of legwork involved in contacting individual store owners and convincing them to stock their
books.
But there's another smart way to
get your self - published
book into your local
library, and it won't cost you — or the
library — a dime: donating print copies of your
book.
That said, I was successful in
getting Nagle's Mercy
into some independent bookstores and
libraries, and most
books are sold online now, so a retail presence may
not be as important.
Enter the Authors Guild who believes that the authors have
not given their publishers the right to enlist their
books into this lending
library, even if they're
getting paid for each loan.
I'm trying to do
book reviews again, mostly of fiction that I've
gotten from the public
library (I've long stopped doing reviews for writer friends simply because what they write I really can't
get into).
While paid e-book subscription services are a great way to
get your hands on
books you might
not buy individually, and they offer the convenience of no due dates, it's at least worth looking
into your local
library's e-book offerings.
Discover why
libraries should be a top target for self - publishing authors and learn HOW to
get your
book in
not just one branch, but
into an entire
library system.
Now
library ebook /
book numbers (I'm
not even going to
get into other
library services and the availability of a real live person to help you)