Sentences with phrase «space on a bookstore shelf»

Winning space on a bookstore shelf is becoming ever more challenging.

Not exact matches

I would never sign with another publisher unless they offered either a huge advance or something I wouldn't have access to as an indie, such as a promotional budget or shelf space in big bookstores, translation deal or a film deal, etc (I know film isn't handled via the publisher, but that's the kind of thing I mean — something I can't do on my own).

Self published authors have to rely on their own resources, be more creative in finding retail shelf space for their books (as a rule, self published authors have far less access to chain bookstore shelves than the big publishers who spend millions on marketing dollars), and have to work very hard to create any sort of buzz about their books.

But to talk about that bookstore space for a moment: a year of availability on a shelf is probably too generous!

This means if getting your title stocked on bookstore shelves is part of your marketing plan, Booksellers Return Program is an essential element to earning shelf space and / or in - store book signings.

So far, only in English - language countries has the digital revolution extended so far that it is clearly reducing bookstore shelf space and forcing publishers to really rethink their futures in a world where «putting books on shelves» will not be the strong value proposition for authors it has always been.

Back when brick - and - mortar bookstores were the norm, backlist titles may not have been given shelf space in favor of newer front list books (see discussion on front list below).

Since shelf space is important to bookstore owners, they want to ensure they are using it for the best return on investment, and who can blame them?

At Amazon's six physical bookstores — six more are on the way — books are arranged on shelves face out, even though that takes more space.

Frankly, bookstores have enough on their plate competing with Amazon for readers» dollars than to give up shelf space to a self - pubbed author.

It takes a (helluva) lot of time and money for self - published books to get on the radar (never mind into the inventory and then shelf space) of a retail bookstore.

If I'd been in a bookstore, Deighton wouldn't have had a look in, firstly because he would be unlikely to have any shelf space (despite a recent reissuing of the texts with damn fine covers), at best maybe a spine out copy or two and secondly because other, newer titles would have been calling out for my attention on tables and in 342 offers.

Publishing consultant Mike Shatzkin discusses the erosion of shelf space in bookstores, publishing innovation, English as a disruptive force overseas, and the two priorities publishers should be focused on over the next 6 - 12 months: price experimentation and improving rights databases.