Not exact matches
Now that you have good reviews
from credible sources AND people can
order the book (both online, on amazon and
other bookstores, and directly
from Ingram) you can start PROMOTING the book.
«You may know Bowker
from ordering your ISBN numbers, but they are also the provider for «Books In Print and Global Books In Print» that contain listings of bibliographical information for international book titles available in the USA or any
other part of the world, in
bookstores and libraries.
If a
bookstore orders 40 books for a book signing, and you sell 20 of them, the
other 20 are returned to the publisher and subtracted
from gross sales.
But what really happens is that your book — along with thousands of
other titles
from big - name publishing houses — will be listed in databases
from which
bookstores order their books.
The
other issue is that if you're using a free CreateSpace ISBN, a
bookstore will often see that it links to an Amazon affiliate (CreateSpace is owned by Amazon), and might not
order from them for two reasons: they're not able to make money off the books because they don't receive the typical discounts
from other wholesale distributors like Lightning Source, and they may view an Amazon affiliate as a competitor.
Without a Bowker ISBN, you can't be included in that database, making it substantially more difficult for a
bookstore to
order your books
from the printing service you use (CreateSpace and Ingram - owned Lightning Source are the two most popular options, but there are
others).
A standoff over financial terms has prompted the
bookstore chain Barnes & Noble to cut back substantially on the number of titles it
orders from the publishing house Simon & Schuster, raising fears among
other publishers, agents and authors that the conflict may harm the publishing industry as a whole.