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• Why bookstores don’t carry self-published books
You’ve just self-published your book and call up your local bookstore to see if you can bring down a few copies for them to stock and sell. Then you do a double take when the manager refuses to carry your book and quickly dismisses you.
• How to get your title into bookstores
When promoting your self-published book, you may want to get the paper versions into bookstores. Besides fulfilling the fantasy that virtually every author (including me) possesses, your book for sale on a shelf should lead to a least a few more copies moving into readers’ hands.
• How to get into Barnes & Noble’s online catalog
Though getting one’s book into the nation’s largest bookstore chain – Barnes & Noble – might be extremely difficult for self-published authors, what about getting it in their online catalog? That would, after all, be the next best thing if not getting it in the chain’s brick and mortar stores.
• Do Kindle DP pre-orders help or hinder sales?
• Increase sales by publishing title as an audio book
• How to get your self-published book into a library
Getting your book into a library is a good marketing tool. It’s the equivalent of giving away free copies in those Kindle programs, except in this case a lone free copy can seen by multiple people for several years. Your book also is on a library catalog system, often available online, that gives people yet another way to stumble across the title.
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My name is Rob Bignell. I’m an affordable, professional book editor who runs Inventing Reality Editing Service, which meets the manuscript needs of writers both new and published. I also offer a variety of self-publishing services. During the past decade, I’ve helped more than 400 novelists and nonfiction authors obtain their publishing dreams at reasonable prices. I’m also the author of 80 books including the Storytelling 101 writing guidebooks, four nonfiction hiking guidebook series, and the literary novel Windmill. Several of my short stories in the literary and science fiction genres also have been published.
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