Several publishers have also taken steps to give booksellers avenues to
get books into their stores faster than ever; Penguin Random House's rapid replenishment program offers booksellers two - day guaranteed delivery during the busy holiday season.
The guys at Draft2Digital make it very easy to
get your book into stores, but, once you are there, you go into immediate competition with millions of other books all shouting for the attention of readers.
But we know the options, we know that if something suddenly happened to CreateSpace, we would just continue right on publishing paper books and
getting our books into stores.
Then with the small presses that can
get your book into the stores, it takes them about a year so they can properly market it.
Traditionally, one of the biggest values publishers have offered authors is the ability to
get their books into stores.
So I wasn't all too enthused about trying to
get my book into stores.
Getting books into stores is one thing.
The bookstore has a limited number of slots available for authors and they've established a wait list for those who want to
get their books into the store.
Many of us go with a traditional publisher simply for the hope that their distribution will be the magic key to
get our books into stores.
In the past, the only way to get your book into the hands of readers was by working with a publisher who could
get your book into stores.
It is very difficult to
get your book into stores, so I'm excited to be able to talk to some of them about why.
How do
you get your book into stores everywhere, in accordance with the first rule of discoverability?
Today is the last day to catch the replay of our Free Author Training «How to
Get Your Books Into Stores Even If You're Self - Published».
They'll know how to
get your book into stores, and they'll most likely do a better and faster job than you.
If I wanted to
get the book into stores and libraries, I would have to do that on my own.
Back in August, we featured a guest post by Amy Collins of New Shelves Books on Wooing Book Buyers to
Get Your Books Into Stores...
With these guys, you'll pay for the narrator and the production, the same as with ACX, and then they'll negotiate with Audible to
get your books into their store.
Someone's got to
get the books into the stores, and publishers are the best at it.
We talk about everything to do with editing, book design, printing, and
getting your book into stores.
To be successful as an author, you need help creating a professional book and
getting that book into stores.