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The huge myth that indie writers hold that they can't get their books into bookstores is the last hope of traditional publishers.

And Sacred Cow (myth) # 1 is that indie writers, with their own press, CA N'T GET THEIR BOOKS INTO BOOKSTORES.

And the biggest myth to hit indie writers (because traditional publishers repeat this over and over) is that indie writers can't get their books into bookstores.

Not exact matches

She knew she couldn't get into bookstores, so she would have to devise another way to get the word out about her book, Cat in the Flock — a much harder task than it would have been five or six years ago.

Not sure how to get your book out of Pressbooks and into bookstores?

One of the bigger industry stories to break this past weekend was Amazon's so called retreat from traditional book publishing presumably because they can't get their author's books into bookstores.

(And if you think that just because a publisher may get your book into bookstores, consider that currently something like 65 % or more of books are purchased online, not in bookstores.

This is a fear based on lack of knowledge and still believing the old myth that it is hard to get a book (not done by a traditional publisher) into a bookstore.)

If the publisher can't offer distribution services to get your book into bookstores, it's not a publisher that will serve you well.

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She talked about her arrangement with IngramSpark which gets print editions of her books into bookstores — still not an easy feat for indies — and revealed that she works now without a literary agent, basically hiring only a foreign - rights agent.

Unless you happen to get lucky, simply putting a book into the online bookstores won't lead to sales.

Indie booksellers will add your book on consignment sometimes, and LS books might look a little prettier, but I've done just as well getting Createspace books into bookstores and don't notice a huge difference in quality.

With the new breed of E-Readers coming out, more companies are releasing new e-readers because It is more cost effective for a company to release an e-reader and not invest millions of dollars into developing their own book store, when they can simply get a commission referring their users to other bookstores.

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.

Don't know if having my book with Lulu will get me into bookstores and libraries, though.

But that wasn't the case, because the next time around I decided to self - publish a 300 - page book as a paperback and ebook, with the aim of getting into bricks and mortar bookstores as well — so a whole new set of skills and needs.

Already over the 100 outlets and you haven't even started into getting the bookstores on board or the new distributors coming in that will also help you get your paper books into bookstores and gift shops.

When publishing POD books, many authors find that they can not afford to offer the full discount required to get the books into bookstores.

Generally, I don't recommend trying to get into bookstores or focusing on live events such as book signings, but it's important to address WHY I don't recommend them, since most first time authors will persist in achieving visual markers that match the «writer fantasies» they grew up with.

So «getting into bookstores» isn't a super thing — it looks cool and makes you feel good for awhile, and yes it might help sell lots of books.

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.

But since I've never really tried to get my books into bookstores, that's not a big deal for me.

Sure you can get your books on shelves, no issue, but many decide it's not worth the extra effort because it is so easy to get books into electronic bookstores.

Although you can certainly get your POD / subsidy book into your local bookstore, the answer is no, most bookstores will not stock POD / subsidy books.

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.

I was excited about the prospect of getting physical books into bookstores, but I didn't relish the idea of selling my soul to achieve that.

Publishing houses don't of course keep their publications of the premises but employ a chain of companies to get the books into bookstores.

Hence, I tend to look at things not in terms of self - publishing or vanity publishing, but it terms of whether or not a particular publisher can get you into the distribution networks so that your book will show up in the bookstores.

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.

I am curious though, when you say you have given up trying to get print books into bookstores, I am guessing that is partly because the return was simply not worth the effort.

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.

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.

A self - published author needs an ebook, because they do not have a publishing house getting their book into bookstores, or otherwise marketing their book.

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.

We still don't think you should invest the majority of your efforts getting your self - pubbed book into bookstores.

Unless you are thinking about getting a physical copy of your book into bookstores, you won't need an ISBN.

Indie booksellers don't have the buying power of the major chains, and indie authors often don't have distribution or a way to get their books into physical bookstores.

They say they can get you into book stores (they can't — they'll just set you up with Lightning Source, but nobody will put your book in bookstores until you sell a lot of books).

That's assuming you can get into bookstores at all: most indie shops will only take self - published books on consignment, and big chain stores won't stock them, period.

You don't need to pay a company thousands of dollars for them to turn your manuscript into a printed book, and it doesn't take special skill or knowledge to get a book cataloged for bookstores.

If we're not with a publishing house and aren't distributed by anyone (or just through the Createspace options), do we have much of a chance getting into bookstores other than local shops like Half Price Books and Book People?

When Ten Speed Press published a new edition of the book, they were able to get it into US bookstores in a way I was not able to.