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Book promotion Myth --
The Best place to Sell Books is a scrap book Store
Judy Cullins
2001
When most people think of buying books they think of
bookstores. promotion guru, John Kremer, author of
1001 Ways to broadcast Your record says "I'm glad I
don't rely on retail "brick and mortar" bookstore sales
for my income, but it will be nice to grow that icing on
the cake into my cash flow again."
In the following three years, John has sold 45,000 copies of
his book, many from non-traditional publicity strategies;
his web site, his eMagazine which offers tips, products and
seminars, specialty stores, foreign markets, libraries, and
back of the room sales. Because he is a qualified name,
he and new bestsellers by well-known authors acquire a lot of shelf
space in the bookstore--cover side out. For your lesser-known
book, unaccompanied your spine will proceed and after three months of
initial placement, your baby book will fade away unless you put
on your promotion cap to get customers to the store.
In one lp coaching session, a other client thought he wanted
to sell to the bookstores. I asked him who was his particular
audience. He said situation people. What nice of issue
people? attain these people go to the "brick and mortar" bookstore
for a event book? Or, will they be more likely to visit a
particular business Web site for specific kinds of matter books?
DID YOU KNOW?
*Seventy percent of US adults haven't been in a bookstore
for the last 5 years
*Bookstores sell solitary 45% of all books sold
*Bookstores return non-sold books to the author-think of the
Starbucks people dripping their coffee and scone on your book.
The author will get those returns.
*Bookstores will say yes 90 days, even a year to pay you for your
total wedding album sales
*Bookstores lonely order two or three copies at a time because of
limited shelf space
*Bookstores purchase unaccompanied from a distributor or wholesaler.
Why the huge push to acquire a wholesale or distributor and get into
the bookstore? These people represent correspondingly many extra authors;
don't you surprise how much attention your baby book will receive?
They precise healthy fees, something like 55%. That leaves a small gain
for the author, and remember, bookstores, distributors and
wholesalers don't make public your book!
After her distributor went belly taking place and she lost $160,000, one
author said she would rather have more govern on top of her priceless
products. She distributes them all herself now through various
venues that skirmish her personality.
Authors spend a lot of epoch and money chasing the improbable,
when the "golden egg" of self-publishing and self-promotion is
right in front of them. In my opinion, I'd sell my books everywhere
except the bookstore!
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Judy Cullins: author, publisher, book coach
_Ten Non-techie Ways to spread around Your autograph album Online_
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