Sentences with phrase «of getting into bookstores»

The chances of you getting into a bookstore are slim, very slim.

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Had publishers treated Amazon like a retailer out to sell as many of their works as possible, rather than seeing this business partner as a threat to the bookstores they already worked with, they could have kept Amazon (or delayed them) from getting into publishing.

Bookstores could be early adopters and natural locations for these machines — but most bookstores would need help to take the risk out of such and investment — and ongoing support in the form of a galvanized local author community to get people into the habit of ordering books through the new in - store tBookstores could be early adopters and natural locations for these machines — but most bookstores would need help to take the risk out of such and investment — and ongoing support in the form of a galvanized local author community to get people into the habit of ordering books through the new in - store tbookstores would need help to take the risk out of such and investment — and ongoing support in the form of a galvanized local author community to get people into the habit of ordering books through the new in - store technology.

It's one of the most important aspects of your book if you want it to leave the bookstore shelves or get dropped into the Amazon shopping cart.

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

Having worked with traditional publishers and self - published several of her books, Massey has great advice for indie authors on independent publishing, book marketing and strategies for getting a book into bookstores, libraries and reviews.

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

It's getting easier and easier for successful digital - first authors to move into print and even bookstores without the help of a publisher, and the spread of e-book reading from dedicated devices such as the Kindle to tablets and smartphones (22 percent of Americans age 18 to 29 read books on their phones, according to the Pew survey) seems to offer new opportunities for those who get the format and pricing right.

About the only ones of us who choose 40 % are those who are both still optimistic about getting onto bookshelves and confused into thinking that 40 % is the discount that bookstores will receive.

This got shoved into the front of my brain yesterday when one of my favorite local bookstores linked off to an opinion article written by a twenty - something who was stridently against electronic readers — to the point that they'd confessed to having irrational hatred for seeing other people reading them.

If you want to get get a hardcover or paperback version of their book into all of the Barnes and Noble bookstores in the United States, their self - publishing unit is the most viable.

Whenever you walk into a large bookstore the sheer number of titles can get overwhelming.

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.

Getting into a bookstore is more of a source of pride and an additional source of physical promotion through book signings and getting on sGetting into a bookstore is more of a source of pride and an additional source of physical promotion through book signings and getting on sgetting on shelves.

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.)

Smashwords — A bookstore and distributor that can get you into some of the places that don't have self - publishing portals (i.e. Sony, Diesel, etc., and they're also jumping into the library scene now).

This is the opposite of what most traditional publishers believe, at least those whose focus is getting paper editions into bookstores.

How To Get Your Self - Published Book Into Bookstores (An Alliance of Independent Authors Guide: Successful Self - Publishing Series 4)

If you're managing to get your book into brick and mortar bookstores (which will take a lot of hard work), then you'll want to leave it at 55 %.

Self - publishing services provider Blurb has launched a series of initiatives designed to help indie authors get their print books into bookstores, one of the hurdles self - published authors face in terms of developing a large audience and one of the main advantages traditionally published authors enjoy.

One of the on - going problems with indie publishing is that it's been all but impossible to get print copies of your book into bricks - and - mortar bookstores.

This change will put a lot of pressure on other bookstores, and by luring people into the store, Barnes & Noble may be able to get customers to buy something else.

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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.

Books sold into bookstores is becoming something only reserved for the brand name authors or big, breakout books that are getting a lot of buzz.

If the physical bookstores fold (probably including Barnes & Noble) and the Big Six consolidate into a Big Two - and - a-Half, where will books get the number of visual impressions needed to create bestsellers?

Barnes and Noble is one of Americas largest physical bookstores and this year they got into the e-reader game with the Nook WI - FI ($ 149) and still their NookWI - FI / 3G Version ($ 189.00)

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.

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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.

JKS worked to get the first book of her Liv Bergen Murder Mystery Series into the hands of booksellers across the country, resulting in the highly - prized Indie Next Pick nomination, a strong endorsement by independent bookstores across the United States, that gives an author the type of buzz in the book industry needed to create legitimacy.

You probably will need a publisher to get into bookstores — though a lot of my successful indie friends have been selling foreign rights recently.

When you register for Indie Author Fringe, you also receive a free copy of Opening Up to Indie Authors, which tells you how to get your book into bookstores, literary festivals, libraries and wherever good books are found.

Lauren Charles [00:09:12] Yes, a sell sheet, and in fact if you can walk in with something that has your title, the cover of your book, make sure that cover looks nice, make sure that it pops, and then, and I would highly recommend to anyone who's coming in, indie press, small press, anything like that, anyone who's coming into any level bookstore, you should be able to say with absolute certainty, this is how you can order my book, this is the discount I know you can get it at, and I know it's returnable, and I can even help you.

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.

This is a huge paradigm shift for publishers, who have typically taken a business - to - business approach to sales and marketing, pitching their list to key agents within the industry supply chain; primarily sales reps who stood the best chance of getting their books sold into bookstores.

My sense is that the cachet of the «conventional» agent / publisher route provides the credibility to get one's foot into the door of bookstores and some speaking venues.

The bookstore has a limited number of slots available for authors and they've established a wait list for those who want to get their books into the store.

But Francine was ready to get the book into bookstores and spread the message of minimalism to a wider audience.

Today we're exploring how indie authors can get their books into indie bookstores with Suzanne Orchard, the owner of Key West Island Books, a gem of an indie bookstore in Key West, Florida.

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.

The first option to consider is Kindle Direct Publishing, which is the program Amazon runs to get your content into all of the different bookstores in North America, Europe and Japan.

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.

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.

But it might be pretty large as your list of books grow and you get them into bookstores down the road.

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.

Again, you'll have to do a lot of the work to get your book into brick - and - mortar bookstores.

As an added benefit, having a print version of your book can get you into bookstores (see below for more on this).