By taking the above steps into consideration, you should be able to turn that work into the awesome moment when your book is
placed on the bookstore shelf for the first time.
75,000 words translates nicely into a 300 page paperback which, when
placed on a bookstore shelf, has a one - to - two inch spine that is narrow enough to leave room for the latest 480 page New York Times best seller release and long enough to keep a customer from feeling cheated.
Not exact matches
A neutral
place is somewhere that either of you could go
on a normal day alone — like a
bookstore, restaurant or other public establishment.
Bus stops, laundromats, libraries, restaurants,
bookstores, grocery stores and travel - related
places (buses, trains, planes, etc.) all fall within the public
place moniker, although there are surely many more to choose from depending
on your specific lifestyle.
A bookend holds bestsellers in
place on a bookshelf at The Book Cellar, an independent
bookstore in Lincoln Square
on February 7, 2013 in Chicago, Illinois.
Boscha would be the first to say it's usually not so easy, but as of that December 2011 blog post, she'd
placed her novel «in three different local independent
bookstores, and I'm
on the cusp of having it at a fourth.»
It has been
placed on many of the online
bookstores, Kindle, and other retailers.
Especially ones released in hardcover all over the
place, the ones
bookstores are going to be discounting like crazy
on the assumption that everybody
on the planet will be buying them.
Barnes & Noble, the largest U.S.
bookstore chain, launched the first version of the Nook e-reader in 2009 to take
on Amazon.com Inc's market - leading Kindle and secure a
place in the fast growing e-books market.
The main advantages to ordering from Third
Place will be convenience (because you won't have to wait for me, they can just print you a copy
on demand), the ability to pay with credit cards and such, and the support of one of the most awesome
bookstores in Seattle.
The new fees, as it has been explained to us, would charge for the overall promotional value of having titles stocked and displayed in the physical
bookstores, regardless of whether those books actually sell through, trying to
place a monetary value
on the benefits of displaying books in the BN «showrooms.»
This also goes for
placing your card in
places you know it shouldn't be, like
on the shelves at a
bookstore.
They can buy from barnesandnoble.com or books a million, or another
place online, or they can buy third party
on amazon, or they can get in the car and go to the
bookstore.
While I am
on the record all over the
place stating my doubt that
bookstores will actually ever go extinct, if they do, don't act surprised when Amazon eventually pulls this shit
on you.
With so much of the industry divided
on the benefits of e-reading versus the damage it can do to the vital indie
bookstores — and with so many of the players in the industry, including BookPeople, divided
on Everyone vs. Amazon — an evolution of this kind seems not only natural, but laudable; it means
bookstores can still be the
place to turn to for reading content, selection advice, and the sense of community that comes from people getting together to talk about a book.
On a trip through Wales more than a decade ago, the border town of Hay - on - Wye — where some 30 used bookstores live cheek by jowl — beckoned irresistibly, while on another U.K. trip, a book - loving friend and I tracked down an old manor house cum used bookstore in the middle of nowhere in, I think, Buckinghamshire, stuffed to its Victorian rafters with well - priced reading treasures (I have forgotten its name and exact location, and a Google search has come to naught, suggesting that this magical place is long gone — or perhaps only appears one day every hundred years like Brigadoon
On a trip through Wales more than a decade ago, the border town of Hay -
on - Wye — where some 30 used bookstores live cheek by jowl — beckoned irresistibly, while on another U.K. trip, a book - loving friend and I tracked down an old manor house cum used bookstore in the middle of nowhere in, I think, Buckinghamshire, stuffed to its Victorian rafters with well - priced reading treasures (I have forgotten its name and exact location, and a Google search has come to naught, suggesting that this magical place is long gone — or perhaps only appears one day every hundred years like Brigadoon
on - Wye — where some 30 used
bookstores live cheek by jowl — beckoned irresistibly, while
on another U.K. trip, a book - loving friend and I tracked down an old manor house cum used bookstore in the middle of nowhere in, I think, Buckinghamshire, stuffed to its Victorian rafters with well - priced reading treasures (I have forgotten its name and exact location, and a Google search has come to naught, suggesting that this magical place is long gone — or perhaps only appears one day every hundred years like Brigadoon
on another U.K. trip, a book - loving friend and I tracked down an old manor house cum used
bookstore in the middle of nowhere in, I think, Buckinghamshire, stuffed to its Victorian rafters with well - priced reading treasures (I have forgotten its name and exact location, and a Google search has come to naught, suggesting that this magical
place is long gone — or perhaps only appears one day every hundred years like Brigadoon).
The content distribution system is not in
place yet, they are working
on offering their own
bookstore.
Robin Cutler [00:05:54] I tell authors when they're thinking, even before they finish writing their book they should think about where it would be
placed on a shelf in a
bookstore or in a library, and really go and look at those books like where exactly you think your book would be shelved.
Every traditionally published book will have to be
placed on a specific shelf in a
bookstore or library — and you need to know which shelf that is before you pitch to an agent or publishing house.
You can help
bookstores and libraries to decide where to
place your book
on their shelves by including the categories at the top of the back cover or near the bar code.
Thanks to the partnership between ABA and
On Demand Books, as well as an agreement through Xerox to install and service the EBMs in member
bookstores worldwide, an estimated 150 - plus machines will be providing instant book gratification to customers by the end of this year, in addition to the ones already in
place in select
bookstores, libraries, and universities.
I buy a lot of my books in
places other than the Sony
bookstore, so an
on - air connection to it is not very important to me.
From independent
bookstores such as McNally Jackson Books in SoHo to long - time forums such as the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church
on the Lower East Side, T Cooper, author, most recently, of The Beaufort Diaries, visits his favorite
places to research, revise, and read in New York City.
Daunt is working
on putting into
place some very crucial moves that are meant to keep the doors open
on the physical
bookstore.
Ingram Spark does
place e-books with all the
on line vendors and offers POD ordering to any brick and mortar
bookstore.
They no longer have to run their works past hordes of agents, editors, and marketing teams in order to get into print — only to worry then about how clerks will position and
place their works
on bookstore shelves, and for how long.
The Fact sheet contains the book's title, author, category, both ISBNs, pub date, price, page count, binding / book type, publisher, language, product dimensions, shipping weight, Web links, and media contact information needed to query a
bookstore about
placing your book
on their shelves.
Small presses, which use print -
on - demand technology rather than cheap offset printing, can not afford to
place your book in
bookstores (because they have to pay for the high - priced ones that don't sell as well as the ones that do).
First - time self - published authors rarely have a sufficient marketing and sales plan in
place (or a sufficient track record) that would justify
bookstores ordering and stocking books
on their shelves.
With your book listed
on Google Books (print) and the Google eBookstore (ebooks), someone can walk into a local
bookstore (if the store is also a member of the Google Books Partner Program) and
place an order for that book, and the store gets some credit.
I also have plans of making my books «returnable» so that they can be
placed on Barnes & Noble
bookstore shelves.
Teleread reports
on the fact that REDgroup Retail, owner of 3 big
bookstore chains (Borders Australia, Angus & Robertson Australia, Whitcoulls New Zealand), has been
placed into voluntary administration.
Trying to get it into
bookstores on my own just seemed so troublesome and expensive, and not likely to bring me many new readers unless I sent them there in the first
place — which clearly is the dilemma of the major publishing industry as well.
It still is, if your book is one of the lucky ones to receive those elusive extra marketing dollars that publishers spend to
place the print edition of your book
on a prominent end cap in every brick - and - mortar
bookstore.
I am
placing my books in several
bookstores in another state
on a 70/30 consignment.
You find a reputable publisher, talk to local
bookstores and
place your work
on Amazon Books.
Its core business model relies
on building local
bookstores with comprehensive selection, attractive discounts and membership discount programs, and a community - gathering -
place environment (e.g., the inclusion of a Starbucks cafe in each Barnes & Noble store).
In an open letter to librarians explaining its switch to limit the number of check - outs a library can offer
on an e-book, HarperCollins said that its previous policy of «selling e-books to libraries in perpetuity, if left unchanged, would undermine the emerging e-book eco-system, hurt the growing e-book channel,
place additional pressure
on physical
bookstores, and in the end lead to a decrease in book sales and royalties paid to authors.9 Similarly, Simon & Schuster's executive vice president and chief digital officer Elinor Hirschhorn says that the company does not make its e-books available to libraries at all because «[w] e're concerned that authors and publishers are made whole by library e-lending and that they aren't losing sales that they might have made in another channel.»
POD creates one - off and entire print runs of
bookstore - worthy hard copies from a «print - ready PDF» hours after an order is
placed (i.e. when you
place an order with the printer or when a customer purchases a copy
on Amazon).
After the dismaying discovery that CreateSpace doesn't distribute everywhere, and that IngramSpark offers a whole ton of things that CreateSpace doesn't (we'll go into this in a different article), I learned that small
bookstores and retailers often won't order inventory from CreateSpace and will only order your book if it's
on IngramSpark, and oh, by the way — that you can be listed in BOTH
places, I realized I needed to have my books
on IngramSpark as well as CreateSpace.
I thought indie -
bookstores would be the natural
place to start pitching my self - pubbed non-fiction historical research title... but as a small business, it seems they are even less likely to take risks
on indie authors.
Chris Donovan, Coronado Historian, tells Peter a ghost story, gives some background
on the Del's
place in WWII history and learns that she and Peter love the same
bookstore!
The project, a full renovation of a 7,500 - square - foot former Chase Bank branch
on St. Marks
Place, will feature a library, a
bookstore (launched in partnership with Printed Matter) and a rooftop alongside spaces for exhibitions and public programs.
The gallery, located in the basement of the
bookstore Les Extraits offered eight new paintings
on wood, a beautiful installation made of transparent fabrics and a wall painted for the occasion next to the parking
place (images below).
On his return to New York city he
placed three landscape paintings in the window of a
bookstore, which (amazingly) came to the attention of John Trumbull (1756 - 1843), William Dunlap (1766 - 1839) and Asher B Durand (1796 - 1886).
On his return to New York he
placed three landscape pictures in the window of a
bookstore, which attracted the attention of the painters and art collectors John Trumbull (1756 - 1843), William Dunlap (1766 - 1839) and Asher B Durand (1796 - 1886).