Sentences with phrase «with getting books into bookstores»

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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.

And Sacred Cow (myth) # 1 is that indie writers, with their own press, CA N'T GET THEIR BOOKS INTO BOOKSTORES.

There are two ways to get an eBook into a bookstore: create an account with that bookstore and upload books directly, or use an aggregator to distribute books to the bookstore.

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

Although Ingram makes your book available to them, there is no guarantee that stores / libraries will order your book, which is why we have several other blog posts with tips on how to sell your book to bookstores and how indie authors can get their books into libraries.

One of the on - going problems with indie publishing is that it's been all but impossible to get print copies of your book into bricks - and - mortar bookstores.

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She talked about her arrangement with IngramSpark which gets print editions of her books into bookstores — still not an easy feat for indies — and revealed that she works now without a literary agent, basically hiring only a foreign - rights agent.

I do well with my books but would like to get into bookstores.

With the new breed of E-Readers coming out, more companies are releasing new e-readers because It is more cost effective for a company to release an e-reader and not invest millions of dollars into developing their own book store, when they can simply get a commission referring their users to other 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.

Don't know if having my book with Lulu will get me into bookstores and libraries, though.

But that wasn't the case, because the next time around I decided to self - publish a 300 - page book as a paperback and ebook, with the aim of getting into bricks and mortar bookstores as well — so a whole new set of skills and needs.

Lauren Charles [00:09:12] Yes, a sell sheet, and in fact if you can walk in with something that has your title, the cover of your book, make sure that cover looks nice, make sure that it pops, and then, and I would highly recommend to anyone who's coming in, indie press, small press, anything like that, anyone who's coming into any level bookstore, you should be able to say with absolute certainty, this is how you can order my book, this is the discount I know you can get it at, and I know it's returnable, and I can even help you.

Generally, I don't recommend trying to get into bookstores or focusing on live events such as book signings, but it's important to address WHY I don't recommend them, since most first time authors will persist in achieving visual markers that match the «writer fantasies» they grew up with.

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.

This weekend... learn the latest tips and tricks in getting your book into bookstores and working with them... at the November AuthorU meeting... get registered.

Today we're exploring how indie authors can get their books into indie bookstores with Suzanne Orchard, the owner of Key West Island Books, a gem of an indie bookstore in Key West, Flobooks into indie bookstores with Suzanne Orchard, the owner of Key West Island Books, a gem of an indie bookstore in Key West, FloBooks, a gem of an indie bookstore in Key West, Florida.

Good luck with the cleaning cats... Like you, I have a houseful of books, a library I haven't got time to go into, and used bookstores are always a passion.

It is impossible to compete with Amazon with their Kindle Singles, Createspace, Kindle Worlds and their foray into established publishing imprints to get the books in real bookstores.

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.

To this book publicist, that means working with a print on demand publishing company (such as the big two, CreateSpace and LightningSource) to get your book into the Ingram Books system and to make your book available through the online bookstores.

One major reason authors used to need to go with major publishing houses is that only through them could they get their books into bookstores.

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 needn't remind those in traditional publishing about the agonizingly slow process of contracting for a book, developing the manuscript, seeing it through the editorial and design and manufacturing processes, getting it into the stores with adequate publicity — and finally trying to move it off the bookstore shelves.

The reason this can occur as much as it does is that a lot of authors are completely unfamiliar with how books typically get into a bookstore, and of the pressures on a bookshop owner and staff.

... The requirements to deliver on the promise «to put books on shelves» included the capital to invest and specialized knowledge to turn a manuscript into inventory, a physical plant to manage the warehousing and shipping of those books, and a network of relationships with the owners of the shelves (in the bookstores) to get the right to put your books on those shelves.

They say they can get you into book stores (they can't — they'll just set you up with Lightning Source, but nobody will put your book in bookstores until you sell a lot of books).

If we're not with a publishing house and aren't distributed by anyone (or just through the Createspace options), do we have much of a chance getting into bookstores other than local shops like Half Price Books and Book People?

Soon enough, people stopped buying newspapers because news articles were accessible online at no charge, stopped buying records because they could get music from each other freely, and stopped walking into bookstores because they could buy books with one mouse click... [more]