Sentences with phrase «owned used bookstores»

I have found that many locally owned used bookstores will carry self - published books (mine, anyway) on their shelves, either on consignment or buying them outright.

The eponymous Gabriel Knight is a womanizing, struggling novelist who owns a used bookstore in New Orleans» French Quarter.

Not exact matches

Most Relatable: Bryan Allain with «The Five People You Meet in a Bookstore» «The Squatter — This guy uses the bookstore's cafe as his own personal office.

They are the collectors, the ones with their own private libraries; 3) cover price aside, most folks are buying their hard covers at a discounted price either through Amazon or other on - line retailers or by using their «club card» for their favorite local bookstore.

Promote your book using your best energy and time — evaluate how best to spend the energy and time you have — do you have enough to visit bookstores around the country for a couple of months or your own community for a day, spend an hour each day on social media connecting around the world with book bloggers, librarians, other authors and readers from your PJs in your house?

EXCLUSIVE LICENSE: This grants the licensee the right to prevent others from using your licensed work... which means you lose the right to sell books through outlets such as bookstores, CreateSpace, KDP — even your own website!

If possible, avoid using your own name as part of the business title, because this will tip off reviewers and bookstore owners that the book is self - published.

As for the locally owned bookstores, if you have a really good relationship with the store owner or purchasing agent, you might be able to get your book in if you use Lightning Source but that is still a long shot.

What is important to know, and it is the main reason for me to start using Lightning Source, is the availability of hard copy edition AND return policy for bookstores and libraries plus the distribution of your book through Ingram and their own catalogue.

I can tell you that I used to do the same with my own books in that bookstore.

Each of these services allows you to order 1 - up - to - mass - quantity of your books, shipped directly to you for your own marketing strategy, or you can use these services to integrate your book into Amazon, bookstores, and libraries.

Many e-readers over the years are sold with no digital bookstore and force users to download their own books from the internet (which encourages piracy) or find a compatible store and use Adobe Digital Editions to transfer the purchases to their device.

The online bookstore mainly just stocks titles in that language but it does have an English mode for advanced users that know how to load in their own books and have no problem using Calibre and Adobe Digital Editions.

Thought it would be cool to have a rare bookstore (using my own collection) that was open on selected days or by appointment only.

The late, not - so - lamented Borders suffered from the same lack of foresight as these others did, but they compounded it by using Amazon as their online bookstore for a long while instead of building their own online presence.

Instead of reaching a very limited number of people using their own website, Abebooks IMO allows used bookstores to reach people who have never heard of the store because they don't live in the area.

Within a year, I found a used copy of my own at a local bookstore, bought it cheap, and read it again.

If you go this route, then later decide to make a bookstore push and distribute via Lightning Source, you'll need to purchase your own ISBN number (you can not use a Createspace ISBN for Lightning Source distribution).

This week is all about how to outfox Amazon with its push of third party sellers of books and learn what Aer.io is and how to create your own bookstore using its platform on author website PLUS offer any other book within the Ingram catalog and earn money as well.

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).

Unprofessional practices (agents who «blitz» submit or use their clients» own query letters, publishers that make writers responsible for getting their own books into bookstores, independent editors who claim that manuscripts have to be «professionally» edited in order to be competitive)

Stanza uses Fictionwise to power its own bookstore.

how to outfox Amazon with its push of third party sellers of books and learn what Aer.io is and how to create your own bookstore using its platform on author website PLUS offer any other book within the Ingram catalog and earn money as well

If Amazon ever started telling authors «If you e-publish with us, you must use our DRM or no deal» then they could pull off a monopsony — but only among the authors who settled for Amazon's terms instead of setting up their own bookstore (or going with Fictionwise, ebooks.com, etc. — all Amazon competitors in the ebook market).

If you want to use IngramSpark to get into bookstores and libraries then yes, buy your own ISBNs.

When you use a POD service, your book is formatted across multiple platforms, so you can easily sell it on your own website, through other online retailers, and on physical shelves in local bookstores.

• Increase the deductibles on your home and auto insurance policies • Use your local library instead of the bookstore and video store • Make your Coffee / Latte habit a luxury and make your own at home • Drop your home phone line and use your cell phone • Bring your lunch to work more often • Call your Cable TV provider and inquire about specials and promotions (or check out a local competitUse your local library instead of the bookstore and video store • Make your Coffee / Latte habit a luxury and make your own at home • Drop your home phone line and use your cell phone • Bring your lunch to work more often • Call your Cable TV provider and inquire about specials and promotions (or check out a local competituse your cell phone • Bring your lunch to work more often • Call your Cable TV provider and inquire about specials and promotions (or check out a local competitor)