I've been dreaming of the day where a hardcover book filled with glossy images, the name on the spine reading «Tessa Huff» would sit
on bookstore shelves next to some of my baking idols like Greenspan, Tosi, Beranbaum, and Stewart for years.
Not exact matches
If a
bookstore agrees to stock your book and put it
on their
shelves, what's
next?
If I say yes to you, the rest will think I'll say yes to them, and
next thing you know, to make sure the books I sell remain high - quality enough for my customers, I'm screening which books make it
on my
shelves and which ones don't, which basically means I'm doing the job of a publishing house now, and damn it, I'm trying to run a
bookstore, not a publishing house, so no... you can't put your self - published book
on my
shelf.
Publishing consultant Mike Shatzkin discusses the erosion of
shelf space in
bookstores, publishing innovation, English as a disruptive force overseas, and the two priorities publishers should be focused
on over the
next 6 - 12 months: price experimentation and improving rights databases.