Sentences with phrase «work into bookstores»

Smashwords gets your story up on Smashwords (a store itself), but it also functions as a gateway site to get your work into bookstores powered by Kobo, Sony, iPad, and others.

Ingram is indispensable to getting their works into bookstores, just as Amazon is indispensable to their tapping the online and ereader market.

Not exact matches

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Working at a fancy bookstore somewhere in his 20s (it's unclear how much school he has managed to finish), Thomas spends a lot of time moping over his feelings for his friend Mimi (Kiersey Clemons), who insists that their one - time tryst will not translate into a real relationship (for one thing, she has a boyfriend).

Now, Reading with Rover, Bishop's organization, consists of some seventy - five dog - and - trainer teams that regularly go into libraries, bookstores, and schools in several Seattle - area districts to work with children who struggle with reading.

Had publishers treated Amazon like a retailer out to sell as many of their works as possible, rather than seeing this business partner as a threat to the bookstores they already worked with, they could have kept Amazon (or delayed them) from getting into publishing.

Amazon then works with the authors to introduce or re-introduce their books to readers through marketing and distribution into multiple channels and formats, such as the Amazon Books Store, Amazon Kindle Store, http://www.Audible.com, and national and independent bookstores via third - party wholesalers.

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.

By taking the above steps into consideration, you should be able to turn that work into the awesome moment when your book is placed on the bookstore shelf for the first time.

We put the books into the system and let the system take care of itself and we are now working slowly to let bookstores know the books are out.

If you're managing to get your book into brick and mortar bookstores (which will take a lot of hard work), then you'll want to leave it at 55 %.

Amazon then works with the authors to introduce or re-introduce their books to readers through marketing and distribution into multiple channels and formats, such as the Amazon Books Store, Amazon Kindle Store, and national and independent bookstores via third - party wholesalers.

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.

Howey studied the industry from the inside - out, working at a bookstore and observing how books sold or slipped into obscurity.

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.

JKS worked to get the first book of her Liv Bergen Murder Mystery Series into the hands of booksellers across the country, resulting in the highly - prized Indie Next Pick nomination, a strong endorsement by independent bookstores across the United States, that gives an author the type of buzz in the book industry needed to create legitimacy.

I did sign with an agent and I am anxious to sign that first deal with a traditional publisher that he is working to line up for me because I see value in getting hard copies into bookstores and gaining access to the international markets that would be difficult to penetrate as an indie - only writer.

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.

There's no doubt that walking into a bookstore and seeing your work on the shelves is a wonderful feeling and a worthwhile goal for any author.

We have Canadian and US distributers working hard to get the book into bookstores.

We'll work with you as partners to take the words you've written and transform them into a professionally - published book ready for the online market and bookstore shelves.

Unlike here in the US where Amazon seems to be everyone's favorite whipping boy — while many of those same naysayers have turned Amazon into the empire that it is today — for it's massive growth and the blame for the death of brick - and - mortar bookstores, German critics are taking issue with Amazon's labor practices, many of which fly in the face of the way working citizens are used to doing business.

Daunt is working on putting into place some very crucial moves that are meant to keep the doors open on the physical bookstore.

And yet somehow, I'm going to wake up tomorrow morning and find that a story I wrote while working as a bookseller — a story that blossomed into a novel one serialized piece at a time — is now being released into bookstores far and wide.

Again, you'll have to do a lot of the work to get your book into brick - and - mortar bookstores.

They no longer have to run their works past hordes of agents, editors, and marketing teams in order to get into print — only to worry then about how clerks will position and place their works on bookstore shelves, and for how long.

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.

After all, bookstores take numerous factors into account when considering a new title, and convincing them to stock a self - published work continues to be a challenge.

And that's not even counting that indie publishers, with some work and minor investment, can sell into the bookstores with POD books as I have been talking about.

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.

So, I will continue work to keep my name and my book out there on the internet, and I will accelerate my foray into bookstores, albeit in a very targeted manner.

Not only will traditional publishers not publish them, bookstores segregate their work into the «black» section — regardless of the subject matter.

In the dark old days, before I learned much about how the real world works, I would walk into a bookstore and immediately be confronted with a large table stacked high with books, and some splashy sign saying something like «New and Notable!».

However, according to The Digital Reader's comment section, perhaps this program might work for certain types of bookstores or outlets that need to get into the book business.

If you feel awkward «hawking» your book, talk about how hard you worked on the book, how much it means to you to get the book into the hands of readers and how strongly you feel about supporting local bookstores.

Launched in July 2012, Kobo Writing Life (accessible via the blog at www.kobowritinglife.com or via www.kobo.com/writinglife) is the DIY portal allowing authors to publish their work into Kobo's global catalog which is available in 200 countries as well as via global retail partners such as WHSmith, Chapters / Indigo, Mondadori, FNAC and thousands of independent bookstores from American Booksellers Association members.

Access to other bookstores such as Google Play Books, iBooks, B&N, and Kobo are not a problem, as using a desktop app and then importing into Calbre works for decryption and conversion from epub to mobi.

Kickstarter may help fund and publicize a project, but it won't get the completed work into comics shops or bookstores.

When he arrived, Tamayo spoke no English, but that didn't stop him from rapidly inserting himself into a number of creative communities — one of Mexican intellectuals who hung out at the midtown bookstore run by poet Juan José Tablada; one of American artists who lived near Tamayo's apartment in the Village, including Stuart Davis, Reginald Marsh, Raphael and Moses Soyer, and Yasuo Kuniyoshi; and a circle of art dealers and impresarios including Walter Pach (who had organized the 1913 Armory Show), Carl Zigrosser of Weyhe Gallery, and future gallerist and Surrealist promoter Julien Levy, then working as an assistant to Zigrosser.

They tend to work from the front end to the back end, taking a piecemeal approach that dumps all of the existing campus information systems (school sports trackers, events boards, educational content, bookstore resources, etc.) into their own separate mobile experiences, sometimes even developing for entirely different operating systems.

Now you can find many of his works in bookstores and produced into films, proving that you shouldn't knock a part - time job.

For this latest book, we also took on the challenge of self - publishing... and that meant working with a designer, creating cover and marketing material, finding a distributor, and overall managing the process of moving ideas and advice from our brains into bookstores.