Buenos Aires has a lot of
really good bookstores - or at least it did.
Not exact matches
Ever since Amazon opened its first physical
bookstore in late 2015, there's been a question burning through industry circles: This retail initiative can't
really be about selling
good old - fashioned books.
Well, if you're
really attracted to the «nerdy» types then you may try to visit museums, geek shops,
bookstores, university libraries or join dating sites that cater for smart and brainy individuals.
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.
Publishers have been extremely helpful in getting distribution into book stores and airport
bookstores; those are all
really good things.
Really good advice in this podcast, especially to do impromptu book signings at airports when traveling (using Twitter to get the word out) and going into non-traditional book stores such as airport
bookstores, spas, hotels and other places that sell books and talk to the manager.
Yes, if you
really want to make a run at
bookstores, go to CreateSpace for only Amazon, then move the same book file to IngramSpark to get into the Ingrams catalogs and such with
better discounts.
Said James Patterson in a New York Times interview, «The reality is that women buy most books... The reality is that it's easier, and a
really good habit, to start to get parents when they walk into a
bookstore to say, «You know, I should buy a book for my kid as
well.»»
If your book sells
really well via the traditional
bookstore approach or online sales, you may appear on the company's radar.
Of course I am not very happy with any online
bookstore's search features
really but Sony seems the
best to me, with Kobo and Nook coming in a very close second.
Bookstores want 50 % of your cover price; subtract $ 7.50 for a profit of
well... do you
really want to bother?