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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.

Additionally, getting your book into brick and mortar bookstores is much easier when a publisher handles it for you.

(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.

And the biggest myth to hit indie writers (because traditional publishers repeat this over and over) is that indie writers can't get their books into bookstores.

POINT ONE: Indie publishers, with a publishing name on their books, can easily get their books into bookstores without spending one extra dime.

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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.)

If the publisher can't offer distribution services to get your book into bookstores, it's not a publisher that will serve you well.

A publisher might be able to get the book into a bookstore chain, but the day to day marketing falls on the author's shoulders.

Publishers have been extremely helpful in getting distribution into book stores and airport bookstores; those are all really good things.

And honestly, the distribution services offered by CreateSpace have been wonderful for the indie publishers to get paper books out into bookstores.

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The biggest advantage to being traditionally published is arguably the publisher's ability to get their books into as many bookstores and other retail outlets as possible.

Indie and smaller press publishers can do books easily and quickly and get them distributed around the world and into 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.

Of course, the irony of this is that getting your books into bookstores is one of the traditional BIG pluses of conventional publishers — making this one more talking point in the case against conventional publishing.

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.

Limit your submissions to publishers that are able to get their books into bookstores and libraries (this is easy: just check the shelves).

If a writer wanted to get their book into bookstores where readers discover and purchase books, they needed a traditional publishing deal because publishers controlled access to retail distribution

Moreover with a publisher the book will get into libraries and bookstores and on radio much easier.

Using a Chinese publisher will get your book into bookstores and online with no hassles.

It is difficult for self - publishers to get their books into brick and mortar bookstores (but it is becoming easier and easier).

Hence, I tend to look at things not in terms of self - publishing or vanity publishing, but it terms of whether or not a particular publisher can get you into the distribution networks so that your book will show up in the bookstores.

I'm a commercially published author, and I love my publisher for all the reasons Ms. Hocking is hoping she'll love hers... they take care of covers, editors, and getting my book into the big bookstores.

As a publisher said to me a couple months ago, «I would suggest to you that the chance [of getting your book into a physical bookstore] is extremely minuscule.»

Publishers had the ability to get books into bookstores through their supply chain; however, booksellers could return unsold books the publisher... a rather strange business model.

If anything the discrepancy between bookscan and your royalty statement shows the difference between how good your publisher is at getting the book into bookstores and how good it (or the bookstore) is at getting it off the shelves.

Instead of doing editing and cover design work, printing tens or hundreds of thousands of copies, and using their vast distribution, storage, and shipping network to get their books into thousands of bookstores across the country (and thus earning their share), publishers are now just doing the same editing and cover design work and a relatively - painless e-book conversion and upload process, and are taking 75 % of the proceeds.

It's the number one question prospective self - publishers have: How can I get my book into bookstores?

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)

A publisher may be able to get your book out into the bookstores, but it's up to you to market your book like crazy to get people to go there and buy it.

If the book is good enough, commercial publishers can get your book into large bookstores.

Nonetheless, at least seventy percent of the books sold in the U.S. are still print, so Amazon's inability to get its titles into bookstores was a huge strike against the vision that it would be able to compete directly against general trade publishers on big fiction and nonfiction titles.

One of the drumbeats of traditional publishing is that publishers can get our books into bookstores more easily.

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